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A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. [Colloq.]

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chicken. As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings. Luke xiii. 34. A hen followed by a brood of ducks. Spectator.

aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medicine as a stomachic; the leaves have an aromatic odor, and were formerly used instead of rushes to strew on floors.

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.

Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personifed. It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything real…

Small chick or crack. Bank check, a written order on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer. -- Check book, a book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by w…

and 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.

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.

The chick-pea. Holland.

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

To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. She, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked three to the wars. Shak.

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

ds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

ke again. Shak. They with their quills did all the hurt they could, And cuffed the tender chickens from their food. Dryden.

ine condemnation. The priest shall write these curses in a book. Num. v. 23. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. Old Proverb.

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.