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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A habitual spasmodic muscular movement or contraction, usually of the face or extremities.
  2. v. To have a tic; produce tics.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A habitual spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, especially of the face; twitching; vellication: especially applied to tic-douloureux, or facial neuralgia. See tic-douloureux.
  2. n. An African beefeater or ox-pecker; an ox-bird. See cuts under Buphaga and Textor.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles.
  2. n. Shortened form of ticket
  3. v. intransitive To exhibit a tic; to undergo convulsive muscle movements.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a local and habitual twitching especially in the face

Etymologies

  1. From French tic (Wiktionary)
  2. French. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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