CPage 242
- English Word Chicaner Definition One who uses chicanery.
- English Word Chicanery Definition Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
- English Word Chiccory Definition See Chicory.
- English Word Chich Definition The chick-pea.
- English Word Chicha Definition See Chica.
- English Word Chiches Definition of Chich
- English Word Chichevache Definition A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
- English Word Chichling Definition Alt. of Chichling vetch
- English Word Chichling vetch Definition A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.
- English Word Chick Definition To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
- English Word Chick Definition A chicken.
- English Word Chick Definition A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
- English Word Chick-pea Definition A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram.
- English Word Chick-pea Definition Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.
- English Word Chickabiddy Definition A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
- English Word Chickadee Definition A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.
- English Word Chickaree Definition The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.
- English Word Chickasaws Definition A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.
- English Word Chicken Definition A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
- English Word Chicken Definition A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.