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A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

snipe. Cherry tree, a tree that bears cherries. -- Ground cherry, Winter cherry, See Alkekengi.

A chicken.

A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.

A small chick or chicken.

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

A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.

Children, taken collectively. [R.] The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott.

Broken in the back. [Obs.] He's chined, goodman. Beau. & Fl.

A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

crystalline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.

cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

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

To call, as a hen her chickens; to cluck. [Obs.] Dryden.