Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: TICK'LE – TIDES-MAN
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TICK'LE, a.
Tottering; wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if in love, may sigh it off. Shak. The state of Normandy / Stands on a tickle point. Shak. [This word is wholly obsolete, at least in New England. Ticklish is the word used.]
TICK'LE, v.i.
To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore / Did tickle inwardly in every vein. Spenser.
TICK'LE, v.t. [dim. of touch; perhaps directly from tick, to pat, or it is the L. titillo, corrupted.]
- To touch lightly and cause a peculiar thrilling sensation, which can not be described. A slight sensation of this kind may give pleasure, but when violent it is insufferable.
- To please by slight gratification. A glass of wine may tickle the palate. Such a nature / Tickled with good success. Shak.
TICK'LE-NESS, n.
Unsteadiness. [Not in use.] Chaucer.
TICK'LER, n.
One that tickles or pleases.
TICK'LING, n.
The act of affecting with titillation.
TICK'LING, ppr.
Affecting with titillation.
TICK'LISH, a.
- Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled. The bottom of the foot is very ticklish, as are the sides. The palm of the hand, hardened by use, is not ticklish.
- Tottering; standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily moved or affected. Ireland was a ticklish and unsettled state. Bacon.
- Difficult; nice; critical; as, these are ticklish times. Swift.
TICK'LISH-LY, adv.
In a ticklish manner.
TICK'LISH-NESS, n.
- The state or quality of being ticklish or very sensible.
- The state of being tottering or liable to fall.
- Criticalness of condition or state.
TICK-SEED, n.
A plant of the genus Coreopsis, and another of the genus Corispermum. Lee.
TICK'TACK, n.
A game at tables. Bailey.
TID, a. [Sax. tydder.]
Tender; soft; nice.
TID-AL, a.
Pertaining to tides; periodical rising and falling or flowing and ebbing; as, tidal waters. Modern English.
TID'BIT, n. [tid and bit.]
A delicate or tender piece of any thing eatable.
TID'DLE, or TID'DER, v.t.
To use with tenderness; to fondle.
TID'DLED, pp.
Fondled.
TIDE, n. [Sax. tidan, to happen; tid, time, season, opportunity, an hour; G. zeit; D. tyd; Sw. and Dan. tid. This word is from a root that signifies to come, to happen, or to fall or rush, as in betide; corresponding in sense with time, season, hour, opportunity. Tid, time, is the fall, the occasion, the event. Its original meaning is entirely obsolete, except in composition, as in Shrovetide, Whitsuntide.]
- Time, season. Which, at the appointed tide, / Each one did make his bride. Spenser. [This sense is obsolete.]
- The flow of the water in the ocean and seas, twice in a little more than twenty-four hours; the flux and reflux, or ebb and flow. We commonly distinguish the flow or rising of the water by the name of flood-tide, and the reflux by that of ebb-tide. There is much less tide or rise of water in the main ocean, at a distance from land, than there is at the shore, and in sounds and bays.
- Stream; course; current; as, the tide of the times. Time's ungentle tide. Byron.
- Favorable course. There is a tide in the aiming of men, / Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.
- Violent confluence. [Not in use.] Bacon.
- Among miners, the period of twelve hours. Cyc.
- Current; flow of blood. And life's red tide runs ebbing from the wound. Battle of Frogs and Mice.
TIDE, v.i.
To work in or out of a river or harbor by favor of the tide, and anchor when it becomes adverse. Mar. Dict.
TIDE, v.t.
To drive with the stream. Dryden.
TIDE-GATE, n.
- A grate through which water passes into a basin when the tide flows, and which is shut to retain the water from flowing back at the ebb.
- Among seamen, a place where the tide runs with great velocity. Mar. Dict.
TIDE-GUAGE, n.
A contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. Brande.
TIDE-LESS, a.
Having no tide.
TIDE-MILL, n. [tide and mill.]
A mill that is moved by tide water; also, a mill for clearing lands from tide water.
TIDES-MAN, n.
An officer who remains on board of a merchant's ship till the goods are landed, to prevent the evasion of the duties.