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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.

 

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