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Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

A small chick or chicken.

The name of several caryophyllaseous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.

A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

A gumlike substance obtained from the bully tree (Mimusops globosa) and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla (Sapota zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum…

Var. of Chica.

See Chiccory.

; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison.

Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.

Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough. Thomas. -- n.

Pertaining to psychical phenomena in their relation to the living organism or to the general phenomena of life.

Bronchial.

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous powder, with a harsh, bitter taste; -- called also colchicia.

A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe, including the meadow saffron.

Of or pertaining to the Czechs. "One Czechic realm." The Nation.

odiceps), 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.

See Dabchick.