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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.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

A small chick or chicken.

The name of several caryophyllaseous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.

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

odiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe.

See Dabchick.

See Dabchick.

A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.

A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

The chicken of the peacock.

A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane.