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away the blood from them ; and for the most part drops offs 
about Midsummer : but the latter harbours in the wool, bite 
the sheep, and sucks their blood. Smearing with tar, it is 
said, expels it from the skin, and it soon afterwards drops 
from the wool. Tobacco-juice is fatal to it almost instanta¬ 
neously, and mercurial ointment destroys it. The former, 
or tick, is removed by the same remedies as the kid, and it 
is wholly prevented by having the young sheep in good con¬ 
dition. 
TICK ARY, a town of Hindostan, province of Bahar. Lat. 
24. 58. N. long 84. 50. E. 
TICKELL (Thomas), an English poet, was the son of a 
clergyman in Cumberland, and born at Bridekirk, near Car¬ 
lisle, in the year 1686. He contributed to the periodical 
publications of the “ Spectator” and “ Guardian,” in the 
latter of which, all the papers on pastoral poetry, except one 
by Pope, are ascribed to him. During the negociations 
which terminated in the peace of Utrecht, 'he published a 
very popular poem, entitled “ The Prospect of Peace,” which 
was highly commended by Addison, in return for which 
commendation he wrote his lines on the “ Cato” of that 
author. On the accession of the Hanover family, to which 
he was attached, he presented George I., on his arrival, with 
a piece called “ The Royal Progress;” and he served the 
cause still more effectually by two satirical poems on the 
Jacobite party, viz., “ An Imitation of the Prophecy of 
Nereus,” and “ An Epistle from a Lady in England to a 
Gentleman at Avignon.” Tickell accompanied Addison to 
Ireland, and was there initiated in public business with a 
view to future preferment. On occasion of Pope’s publica¬ 
tion of the first volume of his translation of Homer’s Iliad, 
Tickell published a translation of the first book of that poem, 
which was patronised by Addison, so as to occasion an in¬ 
terruption of his friendship with Pope. When Addison was 
made secretary of state, Tickell was under-secretary, and 
continued in office under his successor Craggs, On the 
death of Addison, Tickell was entrusted with the charge of 
publishing his works, to which he prefixed a valuable life of 
the author. In 1725, he was appointed to the lucrative post 
of secretary to the lords-justices of Ireland, and retained it 
till his death, which happened at Bath in 1740. Tickell 
had been married and left a family. 
Tickell is ranked by his biographers among English poets 
of the second order; equalled by few of his contemporaries 
in eloquence of diction and harmony of versification, and 
without lofty flights maintaining a decent elevation by a 
cultured style, and by just and ingenious thoughts. His 
funeral poem on Addison is pronounced by Dr. Johnson to 
be more sublime and elegant than any that is to be found in 
the whole compass of English literature. His “ Ode to the 
Earl of Sunderland,” and his “ Colin and Lucy,” are highly 
commended. 
TI'CKEN or Ti'cking, s. The same with tick. A sort 
of strong linen for bedding. Bailey. —Dimities, tic-kens, 
checks, and the like stuffs. Guthrie. 
TICKENCOTE, a Village and parish of England, in the 
county of Rutland; miles from Stamford, and within a 
quarter of a mile of the great north road. 
TICKENHAM, a parish of England, in Somersetshire; 
9 miles west-by-south of Bristol. 
TICKENIIURST, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
North-Bourne, Kent. 
TICKET, s. [ etiquet , Fr.] A token of any right or 
debt, upon the delivery of which admission is granted, or a 
claim acknowledged. 
Let fops or fortune fly which way they will. 
Disdains all loss of tickets or codille. Pope. 
To TICKET, v. a. [fiijuete , Fr. ticketed. Cotgrave and 
Sherwood.'] To distinguish by a ticket.—In that lottery a 
few glittering prizes, 1000, 5000, 10,000 pounds among in¬ 
finity of blanks, drew troops of adventurers; who, if the 
whole fund had been equally ticketed , would never have 
come in. Bentley. 
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TICKFAH, a river of the United States, which rises in- 
Mississippi, enters Louisiana, and flows into Lake Maurepas; 
4 miles north-east of the mouth of the Amite. 
TICKHILL, a market town of England, in the West Rid¬ 
ing of Yorkshire. A little to the west of the town, in a deep 
valley, are seen the ruins of an ancient priory of Augustins, 
founded in the reign of Henry III. Tir.khill contains 28fl 
houses, and 1508 inhabitants. Market on Friday, with a 
fair on the 21st August; 5 miles south of Doncaster, and 155 
north-by-west of London. 
To TICKLE, v. a. \titillo , Lat.] To affect with a 
prurient sensation by slight touches. 
Dissembling courtesy ! How fine this tyrant 
Can tickle where she wounds. Shakspcare. 
To please by slight gratifications. 
Such a nature 
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow 
Which it treads on at noon. Shakspeare. 
To TICKLE, v. n. To feel titillation. 
He with secret joy therefore 
Did tickle inwardly in every vein, 
And his false heart, fraught with all treason's store, 
Was fill’d with hope, his purpose to obtain. Spenser. 
TICKLE, adj. [Etymology unknown.] Tottering; un¬ 
fixed; unstable; uncertain; easily overthrown.—Thy head- 
stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milk-maid, if she 
be in love, may sigh it off. Shakspeare. 
TICKLE HARBOUR, a harbour on the east coast of 
Newfoundland. 
TICKLE ME QUICKLY, a name given by the English 
to an excellent bay on the coast of the isthmus of Darien, 
situated amid high rocks, with a good anchorage and secure 
landing place, being guarded by rocks, and by the Samballas 
islands. 
TICKLENESS, s. Unsteadiness; uncertainty.—Hoard 
hath hate; and climbing, ticklenesse. Chaucer. 
TICKLER, s. One that tickles. Scott. 
TICKLING, s. The act of affecting by slight touches; 
the act of pleasing by slight gratifications. 
Aspiring sons, 
Who with these hourly ticklings grow so pleas’d, 
And wantonly conceitecUof themselves. B. Jonson. 
TICKLISH, adj. Sensible to titillation ; easily tickled.— 
The palm of the hand, though it hath as thin a skin as the 
other parts, yet is not ticklish, because it is accustomed to be 
touched. Bacon. —Tottering; uncertain ; unfixed.—Ireland 
was a ticklish and unsettled state, more easy to receive dis¬ 
tempers and mutations than England was. Bacon. —Difficult; 
nice. 
How shall our author hope a gentle fate. 
Who dares most impudently not translate; 
It had been civil in these ticklish times. 
To fetch his fools and knaves from foreign climes. Swift. 
TICKLISHNESS, j. The state of being ticklish. 
TICKHALL, a parish of England in Derbyshire; 5.§ miles 
north-by-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Population 1166. 
TICKTON, a hamlet of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire; 2 miles north-east of Beverley. 
TI'CKTACK, s. [ trictrac , Fr.] A game at tables. See 
also Tricktrack.— Tick tack sets a man’s intentions on 
their guard. Errors in this and war can be but once amended. 
Hall. 
TICONDEROGA, a township of the United States, in 
Essex county. New York, on the west side of the south end 
of Lake Champlain, and at the north end of Lake George; 
12 miles south of Crown Point, and 95 north of Albany. 
Population 958. It has a valuable mine of iron ore. 
TICONDEROGA, a fort of the United States, built by the 
French, in 1756, in Essex county, New York, in the township 
of the same name. 
TICOO, 
