Obs. [OE. ticcen = OHG. zicchîn:—WTeut. *tikk-ín-, dim. from the stem which also gave OHG. ziga, Ger. ziege goat. The modern Eng. form would have been titchen.] A kid, a young goat.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xxv. 32. Sua hiorde to-sceadas scipo from ticʓenum [c. 975 Rushw. G. ticnum; c. 1000 Ags. G. tyccenum; c. 1160 Hatt. ticchenan].
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gen. xxvii. 9. Bring me two þa betstan tyccenu. Ibid., 16. Heo … befeold his handa mid þæra tyccena fellum.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 100. Þeos fif wittes he cleopeð ticchenes; for … of a ticchen, þet haueð swete vleschs, kumeð a stinkinde got.
