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Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay.

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous. [Obs.]

er Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Resembling cholera.

Resembling cartilage.

Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n.

Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n.

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

icial, yellow, crystalline dye, C6H5N2.C6H3(NH2)2. Also, one of a group of dyestuffs resembling chrysoïdine proper.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane. Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin…

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Small, vibratory, swimming organs, somewhat resembling true cilia, as those of Ctenophora.

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.