season ticket

A ticket which entitles the holder to certain privileges for a certain time, as to travel on a railway, steamboat, or other convey ance for a certain specified time, or to admi ion to a place of amusement. Such tickets are i ued at reduced rates, in consideration of the charges being paid in advance. sēaş-ön, v. t. & i. [SEASON, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. To fit or bring to the best state for use by time or habit; to habituate, to accustom, to mature, to inure. "A man should harden and season himself beyond the degree of cold wherein he lives."- Add is on. 2. To fit for any use by any proce . "His plenteous stores do season'd timber send." Dryden: Annus Mirabilis. to fit. 3. To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare, "How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, v. 4. To fit or accommodate to the taste; to render palatable; to give a higher relish to, by the mixture or addition of some substance more pungent or pleasant; to make savory. "Every oblation of thy meat-offering shalt thou season with salt."-Levitic us ii. 13. 5. To render more agreeable, pleasant, or delightfui; to give a zest or relish to; to enliven. "The proper use of wit is to season conversation, to represent what is praiseworthy to the greatest advantage, and to expose the vices and follies of men." Til lots on . ( Todd .) 6. To render le rigorous or severe; to temper, to qualify, to moderate. "Earthly power doth then show likest God's, Where mercy seasons justice." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. *7. To gratify, to tickle. "Let their palate be seasoned with such viands." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. 8. To imbue, to tinge, to taint. "Secure their religion, season their younger years with prudent and pious principles." Taylor. *9. To copulate with; to impregnate. ( Holland.) B. Intransitive: 1. To become mature or fit for use by time; to become acclimatized or inured. 2. To become dry and hard by the escape of the natural sap, or by being penetrated with other sub stance. "Carpenters rough-plane boards for flooring, that they may set them by to season ." - Moxon : Mechanical Exercises. *3. To give token; to savor, to smack. "It seasons of a fool."- Beaumont & Fletcher. sēaş-on-a-ble, a. [Eng. season; -able .] Suit able or fit for the time or season; occurring, happening, or done at the fit or proper time or due season; opportune. "This came at a very seasonable time."-Cook: Second Voyage, bk. i., ch. ii. seas-on-a-ble-ne , s . [Eng. seasonable ; -ne . ] The quality or state of being seasonable; opportunene ; fitne for the time or season. sēaş'-on-a-bly, adv. [Eng. seasonab(le); -ly.] In due time; in the proper season; sufficiently early. *seas-on-age (age as Ig), s . [English season; -age .] Seasoning, sauce. ( Lit. & fig .)