sick-ticket

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• Ticket

  ·v A little note or notice. II. Ticket ·v A tradesman's bill or account. III. Ticket ·v A label to...

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• ticket

  An official warrant of discharge, so that a heavy penalty attaches to the loss of any of the blank o...

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• Sick

  ·noun <<Sickness>>. II. Sick ·superl Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. III. Sick ·vi To fal...

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• sick

  a small stream, or rill. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Commutation ticket

  ·add. ·- A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance...

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• Tyburn ticket

  ·- A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain paris...

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• Ticket Porters

  See Tackle House and Ticket Porters. ...

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• split ticket

  When two or more important offices are to be filled at the same time, the wire-pullers of each party...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• walking ticket

  Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...

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• branded ticket

  A discharge given to an infamous man, on which his character is written, and the reason he is turned...

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• cancelled ticket

  One rendered useless by some subsequent arrangement or clerk's error. In either case the word "cance...

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• contract ticket

  A printed form of agreement with every passenger in a passenger-ship, prescribed by the legislature....

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• dead-ticket

  Persons dying on board, those discharged from the service, and all officers promoted, are cleared fr...

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• discharge-ticket

  On all foreign stations men are discharged by foreign remove-tickets, and in other cases by dead, si...

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• leave-ticket

  See liberty-ticket. ...

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• liberty-ticket

  A document specifying the date and extent of the leave granted to a seaman or marine proceeding on h...

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• smart-ticket

  The certificate from a captain and surgeon, by which only the smart-money is obtainable. ...

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• ticket-book

  A register for accounting for all tickets and certificates received and used. ...

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• unserviceable ticket

  This is made out in the same manner, and requires the same notations, as a sick-ticket (which see), ...

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• Fancy-sick

  ·adj Love-sick. ...

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• Guilt-sick

  ·adj Made sick by consciousness of guilt. ...

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• Iron-sick

  ·adj Having the ironwork loose or corroded; — said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten ...

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• Love-sick

  ·adj Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. II. Love-sick ·adj Languishing with love o...

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• Sick-brained

  ·adj Disordered in the brain. ...

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• Turn-sick

  ·adj <<Giddy>>. II. Turn-sick ·noun A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy....

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• sheep-sick

  n. Used of pastures exhausted forcarrying sheep. Compare English screw-sick, paint-sick,nail-sick, ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dog sick

  A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach. He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• car-sick

  the kennel, from CAR and SIKE, a furrow or gutter ; q. the Cart-gutter. Yorks. ...

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• iron-sick

  The condition of vessels when the iron work becomes loose in the timbers from corrosion by gallic ac...

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• sick-bay

  A portion of the fore-part of the main-deck, reserved for the accommodation of the sick and wounded;...

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• sick-book

  An account of such officers and men as are on the sick list on board, or are sent to an hospital, ho...

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• sick-flag

  The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...

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• sick-mess

  A table for those on the doctor's list. When seamen are thus placed, their provisions are turned ove...

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• foreign remove-ticket

  A document for discharging men from one ship to another on foreign stations: it is drawn up in the s...

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• sick-berth attendant

  See loblolly-boy. ...

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• sick as a horse

  Horses are said to be extremely sick at their stomachs, from being unable to relieve themselves by v...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• sick as a dog

  A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach. He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sick as a horse

  'I'm as sick as a horse,' is a vulgar phrase which is used when a person is exceedingly sick. As a h...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Tackle House and Ticket Porters

  This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.