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Entries releated to TICK

 

ANGLERS		Pilferers, or petty thieves, who, with a stick having a hook at the end, steal goods out of shop-windows, grates, etc.; also those who draw in or entice unwary persons to prick at the belt, or such like devices.
BASTONADING		Beating any one with a stick; from baton, a stick, formerly spelt baston.
BECALMED		A piece of sea wit, sported in hot weather. I am becalmed, the sail sticks to the mast; that is, my shirt sticks to my back. His prad is becalmed; his horse knocked up.
BURNING SHAME		A lighted candle stuck into the parts of a woman, certainly not intended by nature for a candlestick.
CAMP CANDLESTICK		A bottle, or soldier's bayonet.
CANDLESTICKS		Bad, small, or untunable bells. Hark! how the candlesticks rattle.
CANE		To lay Cane upon Abel; to beat any one with a cane or stick.
CAT STICKS		Thin legs, compared to sticks with which boys play at cat. See TRAPSTICKS.
CHOP-STICK		A fork.
CLUB LAW		Argumentum bacculinum, in which an oaken stick is a better plea than an act of parliament.
COB, or COBBING		A punishment used by the seamen for petty offences, or irregularities, among themselves: it consists in bastonadoing the offender on the posteriors with a cobbing stick, or pipe staff; the number usually inflicted is a dozen. At the first stroke the executioner repeats the word WATCH, on which all persons present are to take off their hats, on pain of like punishment: the last stroke is always given as hard as possible, and is called THE PURSE. Ashore, among soldiers, where this punishment is sometimes adopted, WATCH and THE PURSE are not included in the number, but given over and above, or, in the vulgar phrase, free gratis for nothing. This piece of discipline is also inflicted in Ireland, by the school-boys, on persons coming into the school without taking off their hats; it is there called school butter.
DEATH'S HEAD UPON A MOP-STICK		A poor miserable, emaciated fellow; one quite an otomy. See OTOMY. - He looked as pleasant as the pains of death.
DRAM-A-TICK		A dram served upon credit.
DRUB		To beat any one with a stick, or rope's end: perhaps a contraction of DRY RUB. It is also used to signify a good beating with any instrument.
DRUMMER		A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kettle drummer, who in beating makes many flourishes with his drumsticks.
FIDDLESTICK'S END		Nothing; the end of the ancient fiddlesticks ending in a point; hence metaphorically used to express a thing terminating in nothing.
FOOL		A fool at the end of a stick; a fool at one end, and a maggot at the other; gibes on an angler.
FRENCH DISEASE		The venereal disease, said to have been imported from France. French gout; the same. He suffered by a blow over the snout with a French faggot-stick; i.e. he lost his nose by the pox.
GLIMSTICK		A candlestick.
HAZEL GILD		To beat any one with a hazel stick.
HIGHGATE		Sworn at Highgate - a ridiculous custom formerly prevailed at the public-houses in Highgate, to administer a ludicrous oath to all travellers of the middling rank who stopped there. The party was sworn on a pair of horns, fastened on a stick: the substance of the oath was, never to kiss the maid when he could kiss the mistress, never to drink small beer when he could get strong, with many other injunctions of the like kind; to all which was added the saving cause of "unless you like it best." The person administering the oath was always to be called father by the juror; and he, in return, was to style him son, under the penalty of a bottle.
HOG		A shilling. To drive one's hogs; to snore: the noise made by some persons in snoring, being not much unlike the notes of that animal. He has brought his hogs to a fine market; a saying of any one who has been remarkably successful in his affairs, and is spoken ironically to signify the contrary. A hog in armour; an awkward or mean looking man or woman, finely dressed, is said to look like a hog in armour. To hog a horse's mane; to cut it short, so that the ends of the hair stick up like hog's bristles. Jonian hogs; an appellation given to the members of St. John's College, Cambridge.
HUM TRUM		A musical instrument made of a mopstick, a bladder, and some packthread, thence also called a bladder and string, and hurdy gurdy; it is played on like a violin, which is sometimes ludicrously called a humstrum; sometimes, instead of a bladder, a tin canister is used.
INDORSER		A sodomite. To indorse with a cudgel; to drub or beat a man over the back with a stick, to lay CANE upon Abel.
IRISH APRICOTS		Potatoes. It is a common joke against the Irish vessels, to say they are loaded with fruit and timber, that is, potatoes and broomsticks. Irish assurance; a bold forward behaviour: as being dipt in the river Styx was formerly supposed to render persons invulnerable, so it is said that a dipping in the river Shannon totally annihilates bashfulness; whence arises the saying of an impudent Irishman, that he has been dipt in the Shannon.
KIMBAW		To trick, cheat or cozen; also to beat or to bully. Let's kimbaw the cull; let's bully the fellow. To set one's arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced a-kimbo, is to rest one's hands on the hips, keeping the elbows square, and sticking out from the body; an insolent bullying attitude.
KITTYS		Effects, furniture; stock in trade. To seize one's kittys; to take his sticks.
MALKIN, or MAULKIN		A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman. The cove's so scaly, he'd spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.
MATRIMONIAL PEACE-MAKER		The sugar-stick, or arbor vitae.
PEDLAR'S FRENCH		The cant language. Pedlar's pony; a walking-stick.
SAVE-ALL		A kind of candlestick used by our frugal forefathers, to burn snuffs and ends of candles. Figuratively, boys running about gentlemen's houses in Ireland, who are fed on broken meats that would otherwise be wasted, also a miser.
SCOTCH BAIT		A halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars.
SILENT FLUTE		See PEGO, SUGAR STICK, etc.
SOAK		To drink. An old soaker; a drunkard, one that moistens his clay to make it stick together.
STICK FLAMS		A pair of gloves.
STICKS		Household furniture.
STICKS		Pops or pistols. Stow your sticks; hide your pistols. See POPS.
SUGAR STICK		The virile member.
SWADDLE		To beat with a stick.
THOROUGH STITCH		To go thorough stitch; to stick at nothing; over shoes, over boots.
THWACK		A great blow with a stick across the shoulders.
TICK		To run o'tick; take up goods upon trust, to run in debt. Tick; a watch. See SESSIONS PAPERS.
TICKLE PITCKEB		A thirsty fellow, a sot.
TICKLE TAIL		A rod, or schoolmaster. A man's penis.
TICKLE TEXT		A parson.
TICKRUM		A licence.
TOOTH-PICK		A large stick. An ironical expression.
TRAP STICKS		Thin legs, gambs: from the sticks with which boys play at trap-ball.
WET PARSON		One who moistens his clay freely, in order to make it stick together.
WIN		To steal. The cull has won a couple of rum glimsticks; the fellow has stolen a pair of fine candlesticks.