chiastre 
bandage shaped like a cross or the Greek letter 
X, used for stopping hemorrhage from the tem- 
poral artery. 
chiaust, it. See chouse. 
chibalt, chibbalt, Obsolete forms of ribol. 
chibe (club), . [Cf. chine 2 , cive, with related 
cliihol, cibol.] A variant of chive 2 . 
chibia (chib'i-il), . [The native E. Ind. name.] 
1. An East Indian drongo-shrike of the fam- 
ily JJin-iiritld' : called Corvus hottentottus by 
Liimeeus. 2. [cap.] [NL.] A genus of dron- 
go-shrikes. Hodgson, 1837. 
chibolt. chibbolt, " Obsolete forms of cibol. 
chibouk, chibouque, chibuk (chi-bok'), n. [< 
Turk, rliihuij, > PITS, cliibuq, a pipe.] A Turk- 
ish pipe having a stiff stem 4 or 5 feet long, usu- 
ally wound with silk or other thread, which is 
sometimes wet to cool the smoke by evapora- 
tion. The mouthpiece is usually of amber, but some- 
times of glass ; the howl usually of baked clay, narrow at 
the bottom and wide at the top, like the flower of the 
morning-glory. It is customary in smoking to rest the 
bowl upon a small tray of wood or brass. 
The long chibouque* dissolving cloud supply, 
While dance the Almas to wild minstrelsy. 
Byron, Corsair, ii. 2. 
Once a Wahhabi stood in front of us, and by pointing 
with his finger and other insulting gestures, showed his 
hatred to the chibouque, in which I was peaceably in- 
dulging. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 349. 
chic (shek), a. and n. [P., a slang word, usually 
explained from G. gesehich, aptness, skill, ad- 
dress, gescMckt, apt, clever, < schicken, adapt 
(one's self), bring about, caus. of ge-schehen, 
happen ; otherwise referred to OF. chic, small : 
see chicane.] I. a. Stylish; effective in style. 
II. n. 1. In the fine arts, the faculty of 
producing effective works with rapidity and 
ease ; cleverness and skill combined with great 
facility. 
To use chic, in artistic parlance, is to produce effects by 
means of the imagination and by means of analogy as, 
for instance, to create from one model's face a dozen of 
different ages, or by a few skillful strokes to transform the 
cloth garment on the model into a fur one on the paper 
or canvas, or to make a straw hat over into a beaver. 
The Century, XXV. 575. 
2. Parisian elegance and fashionableness com- 
bined with originality : said of fashion in dress. 
3. Adroitness; cunning; knowingness. 
[Slang in all uses.] 
chica 1 (che'ka), n. Same as chico. 
chica 2 (che'k'S,), . [OSp. ; cf. Sp. chico, fern. 
chica, little.] An old Spanish dance, said to 
have been introduced by the Moors, and to be 
the source of the fandango, the chaconne, the 
cachucha, the bolero, etc. 
chicalote (Sp. pron. che-ka-16'ta), . [Mex.] A 
Mexican name given in southern California to a 
species of thorn-poppy, Argemone platyceras. 
chicane (shi-kan'), n. [< F. chicane, trickery, 
sharp practice, caviling, wrangling, < chicaner, 
use trickery, cavil, quibble, wrangle, pettifog, 
prob. < OF. chic, small, little (de chic a chic, 
from little to little) ; as a noun, a little piece, 
finesse, subtlety ; = Cat. chic = Sp. chico, small, 
little. Cf. chich?. According to some, chicane 
meant the game of mall, then a dispute in that 
or other games, and then sharp practice in 
lawsuits ; < ML. *zicanum, < MGr. r^vKanov, < 
Pers. chaugdn, a club or bat used in polo : see 
def. 2.] 1. The art of gaining an advantage 
by the use of evasive stratagems or petty or 
unfair tricks and artifices ; trickery ; sophistry ; 
chicanery. 
954 
or chicanery ; a sophistical or tricky opponent 
or disputant. 
This is the way to distinguish ... a logical c/mw//<v 
from a man of reason. Locke. 
He strove to lengthen the campaign, 
And save his forces by chicane. 
Prior. 
His attornies have hardly one trick left ; they are at an 
end of all their chicane. Arbuthnot, John Bull. 
You, a born coward, try a coward's arms, 
Trick and chicane. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 184. 
2. A game similar to pall-mall, played on foot, 
in Languedoc and elsewhere, with a long-han- 
dled mallet and a ball of hard wood. It is 
played in an open field, like polo, 
chicane (shi-kan'), v.; pret. and pp. chicaned, 
ppr. chicaning. [< F. chicaner, use trickery: 
see chicane, .] I. intrans. To use chicane; 
employ shifts, tricks, or artifices. [Rare.] 
Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and 
chicane about the motives. Chesterfield. 
II. trans. To treat with chicane; deceive; 
cheat; bamboozle. 
The "strong hand" of the Bonapartist government did 
its utmost to chicane those whose ideas were not accepta- 
ble in high places. Nineteenth Century, XX. 53. 
chicaner (shi-ka'ner), n. [< chicane, v., + -er 1 , 
after F. chicaneur.] One who employs chicane 
chicanery (shi-ka'ner-i),ri.; pi. chicaneries (-iz). 
[< F. chicanerie, < chicaner, use trickery: see 
chicane, .] Chicane; mean or petty artifices ; 
trickery; sophistry. 
Manors got by rapine and chicanery. 
Lamb, Popular Fallacies, ii. 
Men who, by legal chicanery, cheat others out of their 
property. //. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 249. 
= Syn. Quibbling, stratagem, duplicity. 
chicaric (chik'a-rik), . [Imitative.] A name 
of the bird Streps-Has interpres, or turnstone. 
The names Chicaric and Chickling have reference to their 
rasping notes. Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 104. 
chiccory, . See chicory. 
chich 1 (chich), n. [Early mod. E. also cich; < 
ME. chiche, < OF. chiche, F. chiche (pois chiche), 
chick-pea, = It. cece = Pr. cezer = Sp. Pg. 
chicharo = OHG. chihhira, MHG. G. kicher (cf. 
D. sisererwt, Pg. cizlrao), < L. deer, the chich, 
chick-pea.] A dwarf pea: same as chick-pea. 
Her either chiche is sowen in this moone, 
Ther aier is moist, and lande is ronke and stepe. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 106. 
Chiches and the other pulses. 
B. Googe, Hnsbandrie, fol. 18 b. 
Him that buys chiches blanched. 
B. Jonson, Horace's Art of Poetry. 
chich 2 t, a. and n. [ME. chiche, also chinche, 
chince, < OF. chiche (masc. prop, chic), F. chiche, 
niggardly, miserable, mean, lit. 'small' (see chi- 
cane), = Sp. chico, small. Cf. It. cica, nothing, 
< L. ciccus, a trifle, a thing of no value.] I. a. 
Niggardly; sparing. Chaucer. 
II. n. A miser ; a niggard. 
For ther is vch mon payed in-liche, 
Whether lyttel other much be hys rewarde, 
For the gentyl cheuentayn is no chyche. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 604. 
chich s t, v. [ME. chicken, assibilated form of 
chicken, chick, a var. of chuck: see chick?, 
chuck 1 .] I. intrans. To chuck ; cluck, as a hen. 
II. trans. To call by clucking, as a hen her 
young. 
She [the hen] clocketh hem, but when she fynt a corue, 
She chicheth hem and loith it hem before. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 25. 
chicha (che'cha), n. [Sp.] 1. Same as chico. 
2. The mucilaginous seeds of Sterculia Chica, 
a South American tree. See Sterculia. 
chicheree (chich'e-re), . [Imitative.] Aname 
of the gray kingbird or petchary flycatcher, 
Tyrannus dominicensis, a clamatorial passerine 
bird of the family Tyrannidce. See petchary. 
Nearly akin to the King-bird is the Petchary or Chiche- 
ree, . . . one of the most characteristic and conspicuous 
birds of the West Indies. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 81. 
chichling (chich'ling), n. [< chichi + -ling; 
now commonly chickling."] Same as chickling?. 
chichling-vetch(chich'ling-vech),m. Same as 
chickling?. 
chick 1 (chik), n. [< ME. 'chikke, chike, short for 
chiken : see chicken 1 , of which chick is now re- 
garded as a dim. form.] A chicken; particu- 
larly, the young of the domestic hen, and of 
some other birds, as partridges. At exhibitions 
of poultry, a specimen less than one year old, whether 
cockerel or pullet, is termed a chick. When over one year 
old, the chick becomes a fowl. See ehidseni. 
While it is a chick, and hath no spurs, nor cannot hurt, 
nor hath seen the motion, yet he readily practiseth it. 
Sir if. Hale. 
chick 2 t (chik), v. i. [ME. chikken, also assibi- 
lated chicheti (see chich^), a variation of chuck: 
see chuck 1 . Prob. mentally associated with 
chick 1 , which is ult. from the same imitative 
root.] To peep; cheep; make the characteris- 
tic cry of a young chick. 
Chykkyn [var. chycke], as heunys byrdys [var. henne 
birdes], pipio, pululo. 
Chyickynge [var. chickyng] or wyppynge [var. gippynff, 
yeppinge] of yonge byrdys, pupulatus, pupulacio. 
Prompt. Parv., p. 74. 
chick 3 (chik), v. i. [< ME. chikken (chykkyn, 
Prompt. Parv.), sprout, prob. a variant of 
"chinken, related to chinen, chine, chink, crack : 
see chine 1 , chink 1 . Appar. not connected with 
chick 1 , but cf . L. pullulare, sprout, < puttulus, a 
chick, a sprout, dim. of pullus, a young fowl (see 
pullet). The resemblance to chit 1 , v., sprout, 
would thus be accidental; but there may have 
been some association of thought between the 
two words.] 1. To sprout, as seed in the 
ground; vegetate. 
Chykkyn, as corne, or spyryn, or sp[r]owtyn, pulilo [pu- 
lulo]. Prompt. Pan., p. 74. 
2. To crack. [Prov. Eng. in both senses.] 
chicken 
chick 3 (chik), . [< chicks, r. Cf. chink 1 , .] 
A crack; a flaw. [Prov. Eng.] 
chick 4 (eliik), ii. [Also check; Anglo-Ind., repr. 
Hind. c/izV/.] In India, a screen or curtain made 
of thin slips of bamboo with very narrow open- 
ings between them, allowing the admission of 
air and light, while excluding the view from the 
outside : it is hung in doorways and windows, 
both in houses and tents, and is the original of 
a kind of blind or shade now common in Europe 
and America. 
Glass is dear, and scarcely purchasable ; . . . therefore 
their Windows are usually folding doors, screened with 
cheeks, or latises. 
Fryer, A New Account of East India and Persia. 
chick 5 (chik), it. [E. Ind.] A name for the 
thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which 
will make about one pound of opium. 
chick 6 (chik), n. An abbreviated form of chick- 
een. 
chickaberry (chik'si-ber''!), . A corruption 
of checkerberri/. [U. S.] 
chickabiddy (chik'a-bid"i), n.; pi. chickabid- 
dies (-iz). [< chick 1 + -a- + biddy.'] A young 
chicken : also used as a pet name for children. 
Also chuckabiddy. [Colloq.] 
chickadee (ehik'a-de), . [Imitative of the 
bird's usual call-note.] The popular name of 
Chickadee, or Blackcap (Parus atricapitlus). 
the American black-capped titmouse, Parus 
atricapillus, and related species. The chickadees 
are small birds from 4J to 5J inches long, leaden-gray 
above and whitish below. They have a black cap and 
black throat. 
chickaree (chik'a-re), w. [Imitative of the squir- 
rel's cry.] A popular name of the American 
red squirrel, Sciurus hudsonius, which inhabits 
Chickaree, or Red Squirrel (Sciurus JtudsoniHs). 
British America and the northerly parts of the 
United States. It is a small species, about 7 inches long, 
with a tail of about the same length ; the ears are tufted, 
the back is reddish, and the sides have a black stripe. 
The name is also extended to some subspecies of the same 
section of the genus Sciurus. 
Chickasaw plum. See plum. 
chickchack (chik'chak), n. [Imitative. Cf. 
gecko.] A gecko lizard, Ptyodactylus gecko. 
Collingwood. 
chickeen (chik'en), n. [E. Ind.] In India, a 
sum of four rupees. Often shortened to chick. 
Yule and Burnell. 
chicken 1 (chik'en), n. [< ME. chiken, chekin 
(also shortened chike, > mod. chick: see chick 1 ), 
< AS. cicen for "cycen (= D. kuiken, kieken = LG. 
kiiken = G. dial, kitchen; cf. equiv. G. kiichlein 
and E. chickling 1 ), neut., a chicken, in form dim. 
of coc, coca, a cock, but in sense more general: 
see cock 1 . Cf. ME. chikken, peep, cheep, as 
young chickens : see chick?.] 1. The young of 
the domestic hen : in this sense now less exact 
than chick. 2. A domestic or barn-yard fowl, 
especially one less than a year old. 3. The 
young of some birds other than the domestic 
