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Webster 1913 Edition
Ticket
Tick′et
,Noun.
[F. & , and cf.
étiquette
a label, ticket, fr. OF. estiquette
, or OF. etiquet
, estiquet
; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stick
. See Stick
, Noun.
Verb.
Etiquette
, Tick
credit.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
Specifically: –(a)
A little note or notice.
[Obs. or Local]
He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a
ticket
on the school doors. Fuller.
(b)
A tradesman’s bill or account.
[Obs.]
☞ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st
Tick
. Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket
for his mistress. J. Cotgrave.
(c)
A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance;
as, a theater
. ticket
; a railroad or steamboat ticket
(d)
A label to show the character or price of goods.
(e)
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(f)
(Politics)
A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
[U. S.]
The old
ticket
forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766).
Scratched ticket
, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.
– Split ticket
, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties.
– Straight ticket
, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change.
– Ticket day
(Com.)
, the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another.
[Eng.]
Simmonds.
– Ticket of leave
, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions.
[Eng.]
Simmonds.
– Ticket porter
, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified.
[Eng.]
Tick′et
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Ticketed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ticketing
.] 1.
To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on;
as, to
. ticket
goods2.
To furnish with a tickets; to book;
as, to
. ticket
passengers to California[U. S.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Ticket
TICK'ET
, n.1.
A piece of paper or a card, which gives the holder a right of admission to some place; as a ticket for the play-house or for other exhibition.2.
A piece of paper or writing, acknowledging some debt, or a certificate that something is due to the holder.3.
A piece of paper bearing some number in a lottery, which entitles the owner to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number. When it draws no prize, it is said to draw a blank, and the holder has nothing to receive.TICK'ET
,Verb.
T.