Category:Ticket

Tick"et, n. Etym: [f. étiquette 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.]

Defn: a small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a Notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically: -- (a) a little note or notice. [obs. or local] 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.

(b) a tradesman's bill or account. [obs.]

Note: hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by Abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st tick. Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets on ticket for his Mistress. J. Cotgrave.

(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. (d) a label to show the character or price of goods. (e) a certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme For distributing money, goods, or the like. (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.] The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes. Sarah Franklin (1766). 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.]

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.

2. To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [u.s.]