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sulphurous acid in which the base replaces but half the hydrogen of the acid; an acid sulphite.

The common qua(Colinus, or Ortyx, Virginianus); -- so called from its note.

Of or pertaining to bronchitis; as, bronchitic inflammation.

Inflammation, acute or chronic, of the bronchial tubes or any part of them.

A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

Native blue vitriol. See Blue vitriol, under Blue.

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

The process of becoming chitinous.

Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.

An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.

frill 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.

The axis deer of India.

Full of chits or sprouts.

A fossil or petrified conch or shell.

Composed of shells; containing many shells.

As white as cream.