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  1. To touch lightly with the hand, as in the game of tag or tig; give a light stroke or tap to. [Scotch and prov. Eng.]
  2. A light touch, such as is given in the game of tag or tig; a tap; a slight stroke. Andrew was compelled to submit, only muttering between his teeth, “Ower mony maisters—ower mony maisters, as the paddock said to the harrow, when every tooth gae her a tig.” Scott, Rob Roy, xxvii.
  3. Same as tag. On the outskirts of the crowd, some of the town's children … profanely playing tigg. R. L. Stevenson, Education of an Engineer. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch in both uses.]
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  • Diese drei sind: Die Kabalist, Trieb der Intrigue, d. h. der Trieb, der thätig ist, um die Neigungen zu theilen, die Willen zu bestimmen, sich zu gemeinsamen Handlungen zu vereinigen; die Alternant oder Papillone, Trieb, der nach beständiger Abwechslung, nach Kontrasten, nach Veränderungen in der Handlung strebt; die Komposit, Trieb, der die Begeisterung, den Enthusiasmus erregt, nach dem Guten und Schönen strebt, alle Hindernisse überwindet. —  August Bebel: Charles Fourier
  • So eilt der Mensch, entsprechend seinen Trieben, selbst indem er nützlich thätig ist, von Vergnügen zu Vergnügen, ohne in Exzesse zu verfallen, denen der Zivilisirte nicht entgeht. —  August Bebel: Charles Fourier
  • Their name for this species of tree is In-in-au-tig, which means man-tree. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • He had expected that the appearance of his dear countrymen in England would put an end to the mere military “tig-tagging,” as he had called it, of Essex and Waller, and quicken immediately the tramp of affairs. —  The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649
  • So. I crouched in the long, dew-wet grass behind the building next door, stared at Walt Felkin's painted-over windows, smoked my herbal tig, and let my stupid idea hatch. —  Emma Bull - Finder
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  1. A dial. variant of tick.
  2. Origin obscure.
 

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