ticket (tiket)

t. [ Writing was to him little more than an auxiliary to natural history; a way of ticketing specimens, not of expre ing thoughts. Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, xxxiii. I am so far from hating the Dodsons myself that I am rather aghast to find them ticketed with such very ugly adjectives. George Eliot, in Cro , II. xX. For myself it matters little whether I be ticketed as a High, a Low, or a Broad Churchman. Nineteenth Century , XXVI. 825. 2. To furnish with a ticket: as, to ticket a pa enger to California. [Colloq., U. S.] ticket-day (tik'et-dā), n. The day before the settling or paying day on the stock-exchange, when the tickets containing the names of the tickle actual purchasers are given in by one stockbroker to another. ticket-holder (tik'et-holder), n. 1. A device for attaching a tag, card, etc., to a trunk, box, or parcel.-2. In a railway sleeping-car, a metal clip or spring fastened to the side of a berth, to hold the tickets of the occupant.-3. A device for attaching a railroad-ticket to the hat or coat of a pa enger to keep it in view. -4. One who holds a ticket, as for admi ion to an exhibition or for other privilege. ticketing (tik'et-ing), n. [Verbal n. of ticket, v.] 1. The act or practice of affixing tickets to anything, or of giving tickets for it: as, the ticketing of goods or of pa engers.-2. The selling of ore by ticket. See ticket, n., 6. ticket-night (tik'et-nit), n. A benefit at a IMG:content-0398.png:[blocks in formation] porter who wears a badge or ticket, by which he may be identified. [Great Britain.] ticket-punch (tik'et-punch), n. A hand-punch for stamping or canceling railroad, theater, or other tickets. The most common form cuts a hole in the ticket, the shape of the hole indicating a number, letter, or some other device. In some forms the blank stamped out of the ticket is retained in a receptacle attached to the punch, an alarm-bell is rung, or a registering device is set in motion to record the number of tickets punched.