Chick :: Chick (v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate..

Chick :: Chick (n.) A chicken.

Chick :: Chick (n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.

Chick-pea :: Chick-pea (n.) A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram..

Chick-pea :: Chick-pea (n.) Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts..

Chickabiddy :: Chickabiddy (n.) A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child..

Chickadee :: Chickadee (n.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note..

Chickaree :: Chickaree (n.) The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.

Chickasaws :: Chickasaws (n. pl.) 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..

Chicken :: Chicken (n.) A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl..

Chicken :: Chicken (n.) A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.

Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..

Chicken-breasted :: Chicken-breasted (a.) Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column..

Chicken-hearted :: Chicken-hearted (a.) Timid; fearful; cowardly.

Chickling :: Chickling (n.) A small chick or chicken.

Chickweed :: Chickweed (n.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds..

Chicky :: Chicky (n.) A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls..

Dabchick :: Dabchick (n.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), 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..

Dipchick :: Dipchick (n.) See Dabchick.

Dobchick :: Dobchick (n.) See Dabchick.

Ellachick :: Ellachick (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

Hickory :: Hickory (n.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter..

Hicksite :: Hicksite (n.) A member or follower of the liberal party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827..

Hickup :: Hickup (n. & v. i.) See Hiccough.

Hickwall :: Hickwall (n.) Alt. of Hickwa.

Hickway :: Hickway (n.) The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe.

Peachick :: Peachick (n.) The chicken of the peacock.

Sea Chickweed :: Sea chickweed () A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane..

Squab-chick :: Squabby (a.) Short and thick; suqabbish.

Thick :: Thick (superl.) Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick..

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