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  • 101tick´lish|ness — tick|lish «TIHK lihsh», adjective. 1. sensitive to tickling: »The bottoms of the feet are ticklish. 2. requiring careful handling; delicate; risky: »a ticklish assignment. Telling a person his faults is a ticklish job. SYNONYM(S): precarious. 3 …

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  • 102tick´lish|ly — tick|lish «TIHK lihsh», adjective. 1. sensitive to tickling: »The bottoms of the feet are ticklish. 2. requiring careful handling; delicate; risky: »a ticklish assignment. Telling a person his faults is a ticklish job. SYNONYM(S): precarious. 3 …

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  • 103tick|lish — «TIHK lihsh», adjective. 1. sensitive to tickling: »The bottoms of the feet are ticklish. 2. requiring careful handling; delicate; risky: »a ticklish assignment. Telling a person his faults is a ticklish job. SYNONYM(S): precarious. 3 …

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  • 104tick|seed — «TIHK SEED», noun. 1. any one of various plants with seeds that look like ticks, such as a coreopsis or a bugseed. 2. = tick trefoil. (Cf. ↑tick trefoil) …

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  • 105tick-trefoil — tick trefoil, tick weed see tick n.1 3 …

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  • 106Tick Tock Tuckered — is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon. A color remake of the cartoon Porky s Badtime Story featuring Porky Pig and Gabby Goat, it was directed by the same director of the previous film: Bob Clampett. The plot of the two cartoons are very similar. Tick… …

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  • 107Tick Bite, North Carolina — Tick Bite is a small community on the Contentnea Creek near Grifton in Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States. The only business in the community is a quarry.Tick Bite was decimated by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Contentnea Creek, which runs… …

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  • 108Tick Tack — may refer to: * Tick! Tack! , a visual novel by Navel. *tic tac, the brand name of small, hard mints manufactured by the Italian confectioner Ferrero. *Tic tac, a betting signalling system …

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  • 109tick-borne — tik .bō(ə)rn, .bȯ(ə)rn adj capable of being transmitted by the bites of ticks <tick borne encephalitis> …

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  • 110tick paralysis — n a progressive spinal paralysis that moves upward toward the brain in humans or lower animals and that is caused by a neurotoxin secreted by some ticks (as Dermacentor andersoni) and injected into the host during feeding * * * a progressive,… …

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