Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ticket \Tick"et\, n. [F. ['e]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.
   Specifically:
   (a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]

             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.
   (b) A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]

   Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by
         abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st {Tick}.

               Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
               On ticket for his mistress.        --J. Cotgrave.
   (c) 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.
   (d) A label to show the character or price of goods.
   (e) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other
       scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
   (f) (Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for
       at an election; a set of nominations by one party for
       election; a ballot. [U. S.]

             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.]