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A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior. To shuffle from them by chicane. Burke. To cut short this, I propound it fairly to your own canscience. Berkeley.

One who uses chicanery. Locke.

cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam.

See Chicory.

The chick-pea.

See Chica.

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

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

A chicken.

A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the sounth of Europe; the chick; the dwarf pea; the gram.

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

A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.

The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.

A trible of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory.

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden. "Stella is no chicken." Swift. Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; - - so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.