ticket

[O. Fr, etiqueta little note, a bill or ticket, masc. of étiquette; O. Fr. estiquete a ticket, from Ger, sticken =to stick, set, fix.] [ETIQUETTE, STICK, v.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, having something written or printed on it, and serving as a notice, acknowledgment, token, .: as (1) A bill posted up; a notice. "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-dores."-Fuller: Worthies; Bucking hams hire. (2) A tradesman's bill or account; hence the old phrase, to take goods on ticket (now abbreviated into tick ); that is, to take goods to be set down in a bill, hence, on credit. *(3) A visiting card. "A ticket is only a visiting-card with a name upon it." -Mad. D ' Arblay : Cecilia , bk. i., ch. iii. (4) A label stuck on or attached to anything to give notice of something concerning it, as to declare its quality, nature, price, . IMG:content-1108.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The act or practice of affixing tickets to. 2. A periodical sale of ore, especially of copper and lead, in the English mining districts. The adventurers and buyers meet round a table, when each of the latter hands in a ticket bearing an offer of So much a ton, and the lots are sold to the highest bidder.