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.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• CHICKEN POX
  A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
• 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.