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A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

In a manner to cheer or encourage.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

A coin. See Sequin. Shak.

A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.

A small chick or chicken.

In a chiding or reproving manner.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful. [R.] Shak.

Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner. -- Chill"ing"ly, adv.

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

The chippy.

See Chipmunk.

Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

In a chirping manner.

to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.