tick : Idioms & Phrases

• noun common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
  Dermacentor variabilis; American dog tick.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

Webster 1913

Beg"gar's ticks`

Definitions

1. The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
  burr marigold; bur marigold; beggar's-ticks; sticktight.
  

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• noun the seed of bur marigolds
  Spanish needles.
  
• noun any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
  burr marigold; bur marigold; beggar's-ticks; sticktight.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genus Ornithomyia, and allies), usually winged.

Webster 1913

• noun parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
  Ixodes scapularis.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Deathwatch.

Webster 1913

• noun a northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis
  Ixodes dammini.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds.

Webster 1913

• noun bur marigold of temperate Eurasia
  trifid bur marigold; European beggar-ticks; Bidens tripartita.
  

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• noun ticks having a hard shield on the back and mouth parts that project from the head
  ixodid.
  

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• noun winged fly parasitic on horses
  Hippobosca equina; horsefly.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a winged, dipterous insect (Hippobosca equina), which troubles horses by biting them, and sucking their blood; called also horsefly, horse louse, and forest fly.

Webster 1913

• noun a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals
  Kenya fever; boutonneuse fever; Marseilles fever.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of several species of ticks resembling seeds in form and color.

Webster 1913

• noun wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
  sheep ked; sheep tick; Melophagus Ovinus.
  
• noun parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
  Ixodes ricinus; sheep tick.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a wingless parasitic insect (Melophagus ovinus) belonging to the Diptera. It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling. Called also sheep pest, and sheep louse.

Webster 1913

• noun wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle
  sheep ked; sheep tick; Melophagus Ovinus.
  
• noun parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete
  Ixodes ricinus; sheep tick.
  

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• noun tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head
  argasid.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the family Hippoboscidæ, which lives upon the stag and in usually wingless. The same species lives also upon the European grouse, but in that case has wings.

Webster 1913

• noun bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows
  Bidens connata.
  

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• a small bean used for feeding horses and other animals.

Webster 1913

• noun caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks
  mountain fever; Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
  

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• verb put a check mark on or near or next to
  mark off; check off; mark; tick; check.
  
  • Please check each name on the list
  • tick off the items
  • mark off the units

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• verb run disconnected or idle
  idle.
  
  • the engine is idling

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• noun any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
  beggar lice; beggar's lice.
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to many plants of the leguminous genus Desmodium, which have trifoliate leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

Webster 1913

• noun a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
  noughts and crosses; tic-tac-toe; ticktacktoe; ticktacktoo; tit-tat-toe.
  

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• noun any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
  tickweed; coreopsis; tickseed.
  

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• noun a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed
  time bomb.
  
  • India is a demographic time bomb
  • the refugee camp is a ticking bomb waiting to go off

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• noun bur marigold of temperate Eurasia
  trifid bur marigold; European beggar-ticks; Bidens tripartita.
  

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• noun a small increase
  
  • the up-tick in terrorist activity

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Wa"ter tick`

Definitions

1. Same as Water mite.

Webster 1913

• noun a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California
  Ixodes pacificus.
  

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• noun common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia
  Dermacentor variabilis; American dog tick.
  

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• . See in Vocabulary.

Webster 1913