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tick noun1.
[Old English ticia.]
Any of various bloodsucking acarids of the families Argasidae and Ixodidae, which attach themselves to the skin of dogs, cattle, and other mammals, and may transmit disease to humans. Also loosely, any of various parasitic flies (dipterans) of the families Hippoboscidae (infesting birds, sheep, etc.) and Nycteribiidae (infesting bats); a ked. OE.
b. An unpleasant or despicable person. Freq. in little tick. colloq. M17.
In full tick-bean. A small-seeded variety of the horsebean, Vicia faba, so called from the resemblance of the seed to a dog-tick. M18.
Phrases: full as a tick, tight as a tick slang full to repletion, esp. extremely drunk. hard tick: see HARD adjective. new tick: see NEW adjective. Rocky Mountain spotted fever tick, Rocky Mountain spotted tick, Rocky Mountain wood tick: see ROCKY MOUNTAIN. soft tick: see SOFT adjective.
Comb.: tick-bean: see sense 2 above; tick-bird a bird which feeds on ticks infesting large mammals, esp. (in Africa) an ox-pecker (genus Buphagus) or (in the W. Indies) the keel-bill, Crotophaga ani; tick-borne adjective transmitted by ticks; tick-borne fever, a mild transient rickettsial fever of sheep, cattle, and goats; tick fever a fever (in humans or cattle) caused by the bites of ticks; tick-fly a parasitic fly (see sense 1); tick paralysis: caused by neurotoxin in the saliva of certain biting ticks; tick pyaemia a type of blood-poisoning in sheep, esp. lambs, caused by Staphylococcus aureus and leading to lameness or death; tick-seed any of various plants having seeds resembling ticks; spec. (N. Amer.) a coreopsis, esp. Coreopsis lanceolata; tick-trefoil any of various leguminous plants of the genus Desmodium, the pods of which break up into one-seeded joints which adhere to clothing, animals' fur, etc.; tick typhus = ROCKY MOUNTAIN (spotted) fever.
tickicide noun = ACARICIDE L20.