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A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [Prov. Eng.]

Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines. [R.]

A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.

Of or pertaining to the stomach; as, stomachic vessels.

Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche. Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.

By synecdoche.

To make a tchick.

Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.

Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

The common American gallinule.

A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.

ween persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.

rupy balsam, obtained from a Central American tree ( Myroxylon Pereiræ and used as a stomachic and expectorant, and in the treatment of ulcers, etc. It was long supposed to be a product of Peru. -- Balsam of Tolu, a reddish or yellowish brown semisolid or solid balsam, obtained from a South American tree ( Myxoxylon t…

A name used in calling a hen or chicken. Shak.

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2). That ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird. Shak. The brydds [birds] of the aier have nestes. Tyndale (Matt. viii. 20).

An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.

The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region.

ell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.