Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, these are ticklish times. Swift.
4. Criticalness of condition or state.

TICK'LISH-LY, adv.

In a ticklish manner.

TICK'LISH-NESS, n.

1. The state or quality of being ticklish or very sensible.
2. The state of being tottering or liable to fall.

TICK-SEED, n.

A plant of the genus Coreopsis, and another of the genus Corispermnm. 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.]

1. Time, season. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. Spenser. [This sense is obsolete.] [This word is wholly obsolete, at least in New England. Ticklish is the word used.]
2. 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 mane of ff otsf-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
3. Stream; course; current; as, the tide of the times. Time's ungentle tide. Byron, There is a tide in the aiming of men.
4. Favorable course.
5. Violent confluence. [Not is use.] Bacon.
6. Among miners, the period of twelve hours. Cyc.
7. 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.

1. 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.
2. 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.

TIDE-WAIT-ER, n. [tide and waiter.]

An officer who watches the landing of goods, to secure the payment of duties.

TIDE-WAY, n. [tide and way.]

The channel in which the tide sets. Mar. Dict.

TI'DI-ED, pp.

Made tidy.