Tickle

Definition of Tickle

Tic´kle

v. t.	1.	To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. [imp. & p. p. Tickled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tickling .] If you tickle us, do we not laugh? - Shak.
	2.	To please; to gratify; to make joyous. Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. - Pope. Such a nature Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow Which he treads on at noon. - Shak.
v. i.	1.	To feel titillation. He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein. - Spenser.
	2.	To excite the sensation of titillation.
a.	1.	Ticklish; easily tickled.
	2.	Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant. The world is now full tickle, sikerly. - Chaucer. So tickle is the state of earthy things. - Spenser.
	3.	Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown. Thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. - Shak.

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