Word Meanings - CHICKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small chick or chicken.
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- CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - CHICK
To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. Chalmers. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - CHICKABIDDY
A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child. - CHICK-PEA
A Small leguminous plant of Asia, Africa, and the sounth of Europe; the chick; the dwarf pea; the gram. 2. Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted , as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts. - CHICKADEE
A small bird, the blackcap titmouse , of North America; -- named from its note. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - CHICKLING
A small chick or chicken. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - CHICKY
A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls. - CHICKEN-HEARTED
Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan. - CHICKEN
1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. 2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence - CHICKAREE
The American red squirrel ; -- so called from its cry. - SMALLNESS
The quality or state of being small. - CHICKWEED
The name of several caryophyllaseous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds. - CHICKEN POX
A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. - SMALLS
See 3 - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - DOBCHICK
See DABCHICK - ELLACHICK
A fresh-water tortoise of California; -- used as food. - DIPCHICK
See DABCHICK - DABCHICK
A small water bird , allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe. - WATER CHICKEN
The common American gallinule. - WATER CHICKWEED
A small annual plant growing in wet places in southern regions. - ABYSMALLY
To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.