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Ticket \Tick"et\, n. [F. ['e]tiquette a label, ticket, fr. OF.
estiquette, or OF. etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic
origin, and akin to E. stick. See {Stick}, n. & v., and cf.
{Etiquette}, {Tick} credit.]
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a
notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
Specifically:
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(a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]
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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 doors. --Fuller.
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(b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]
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Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by
abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st {Tick}.
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Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress. --J. Cotgrave.
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(c) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place
of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a
theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
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(d) A label to show the character or price of goods.
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(e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other
scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
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(f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for
at an election; a set of nominations by one party for
election; a ballot. [U. S.]
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The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four
votes. --Sarah
Franklin
(1766).
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{Scratched ticket}, a ticket from which the names of one or
more of the candidates are scratched out.

{Split ticket}, a ticket representing different divisions of
a party, or containing candidates selected from two or
more parties.

{Straight ticket}, a ticket containing the regular
nominations of a party, without change.

{Ticket day} (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day
on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual
purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another.
[Eng.] --Simmonds.

{Ticket of leave}, a license or permit given to a convict, or
prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for
himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to
certain specific conditions. [Eng.] --Simmonds.

{Ticket porter}, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which
he may be identified. [Eng.]
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Ticket \Tick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ticketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ticketing}.]
1. To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to
ticket goods.
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2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket
passengers to California. [U. S.]
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