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• Tick

  ·noun Ticking. ·see <<Ticking>>, ·noun. II. Tick ·vi To go on trust, or credit. III. Tick ·noun A ...

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• tick

  A ticket; score; debt; trust; credit.--Worcester. This word, says Dr. Johnson, seems contracted from...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Water tick

  ·- ·same·as Water mite. ...

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• Wood tick

  ·- Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly ...

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• dram-a-tick

  A dram served upon credit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose