ticketn.[F. tiquette 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.] A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.() A little note or notice.()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.) A tradesman's bill or account.()()Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress. (J. Cotgrave.) 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.() A label to show the character or price of goods.() A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.() (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.()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.]()v. t.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.()()