ticking work (tikingwerk)

A kind of embroidery done upon ticking as a background, the stripes of the material being utilized in the design. tickle (tik'l), v.; pret. and pp. tickled, ppr. tick ling. [Early mod. E. also ticle; Shak., M. of V., iii. 1. 68. Their Stings are not strong enough to enter a Man's Skin; but, if disturbed, they will fly at one as furiously as the great Bees, and will tickle , but cannot hurt you. Dampier , Voyages, II. ii. 112. We were informed of a very particular manner of catching them by encompa ing them with a net, and men go into the water, tickle them on the belly, and so get them ashoar. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 252. He is playful so out of season that he reminds me of a young lady I saw at Sta. Maria Novella, who at one moment cro ed herself, and at the next tickled her companion. Landor, Imag. Conv., Southey and Landor, ii. 2. To touch, affect, or excite agreeably; gratify; please or amuse by gentle appeals to one's imagination, sense of humor, vanity, or the like. Whereat her Maiestie laughed as she had bene tickled, and all the rest of the company, although very graciously (as her manner is) she gave him great thankes. The first view did even ward joy. How dost like him? art not rapt, art not tickled now? B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Pope , E ay on Man, ii. 276. My father was hugely tickled with the subtleties of these learned discourses. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, iv. 31. Putten ham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 217. tickle my senses with in Coryat, Crudities, I. 110. The notion of the lion couchant with his currant eyes being hoisted up to the place of honor on a mantle-piece tickled my hysterical fancy. Mrs. Gaskell , Cranford, xiv. His spice is of so keen a flavor that it tickles the coarsest palate. Whipple , E . and Rev., I. 13. IMG:content-0399.png:[blocks in formation] What opinion will the managing of this affair bring to my wisdom! my invention tickles with apprehension on 't. Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, iii. 2. In trifling works of fancy, wits agree That nothing tickles like a simile. Garrick, quoted in W. Cooke's Memoirs of S. Foote, I. 107. 3. To have an impatient or uneasy desire to do or to get something; itch; tingle. The fingers of the A then i ens ticled to aide and succour Harpalus. Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 318. I am glad the silly man is weake and old; By heauen, my fingers tickle at his gold. Heywood , Four Prentises of London (Works, II. 185). 4. To produce the sensation of titillation, or 6329 It is too cold to work, but it is not too cold to sit on a fence chewing, with a tickler of whisky handy. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XXXIX. 77. 6. A small weapon carried on the person, as a pistol or a knife. [Slang, southern and west- ern U. S.]-7. A strap strap with which to whip. -8. A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.-9. A large longicorn bee- tle, Monohammus titillator , with extremely long antennæ: so called from the habit it has (in common with most of the Cerambycidæ ) of gently touching now and then the surface on which it walks with the tips of its long an-. tennæ. T. W. Harris.