Tick
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TICK, contracts. Credit; as, if a servant usually buy for the master upon
tick, and the servant buy something without the master's order, yet, if the
master were trusted by the trader, he is liable. 1 Show. 95; 3 Keb. 625; 10
Mod. 111; 3 Esp. R. 214; 4 Esp. R. 174.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
References in classic literature
He had scarcely left the room, and allowed the
ticking to become audible again, when a quick hand turned a latchkey in the house- door, opened it, and shut it.
Dark drops fell on the floorcloth one after another, with a sound of
ticking growing fast and furious like the pulse of an insane clock.
It is the
ticking of the Judge's watch, which, ever since Hepzibah left the room in search of Clifford, he has been holding in his hand.
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