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tisick, tisical, (tiss-) obs. and dial. forms of phthisic, -al. Hence tis(s)icking a. = next; † tisickness, phthisic or asthmatic quality.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1539) 82 Tisiknesse or shortnesse of breth. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Tissick,..a tickling faint cough; called also a ‘tissicky cough’. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta II. 521 The Sherif visited Beyrût some years ago..for the health of a tisical son. 1890Blackw. Mag. CXLVIII. 463/2 Snipe hummed and bleated out a tissicking music. 1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Tissick, etc. |