ticking (2)

"Interspersed with a profusion of longer black hairs, giving the appearance known as ticking ."- Field , March 20, 1886. (5) A token of a right, privilege, or debt, con- tained, in general, upon a card or slip of paper; as, a certificate or token of a share in a lottery, or other mode of distributing money, goods, or the like; a marked card or slip of paper given as an acknowledgment of goods deposited or pledged, as tickle, *tik-el-en, *tik-len, v . t . & i. [TICKLE, a pawn- ticket ; a token or certificate of right of adj .] entry to a place of amusement, ., or to travel in a railway or other conveyance. "Well dre ed, well bred, Well equipaged, is ticket good enough To pa us readily through ev'ry door." Cowper: Task, iii. 98. (6) In politics, a printed list of candidates for use at an election; the names of a list of candidates; a set of nominations for an election; hence, the candidates or side of a particular party, the policy of a particular party. "To vote solidly the 'Parnell ticket . '"-London Daily Telegraph. (1) A hard ticket : A dangerous, unscrupulous individual; one whom it is better to let alone. (2) Scratched ticket : A ticket from which the names of one or more candidates have been cro ed out. IMG:content-1109.png:[blocks in formation]