C H I 
fo judicioufly planned, that, though art has conduced 
the whole procefs, fhe lies concealed, and only nature 
ftrikes the eye. 
CH I'C HESTER, a town of the American States, in 
Rockingham county, New-Hampflfire, about thirty-five 
miles north-weft of Exeter, and forty-five from Portf- 
mouth. It lies on Suncock river and was incorporated 
in 1727. 
CIII'CHESTER, Upper and Lower, two towns of 
the American States, in Delaware county, Pennfylvania. 
CHI'CINCE, a town of Lithuania: eight miles north 
of Rohaczovv. 
CHICK, or Chicken, / [cicen, Sax. kiecken, Dutch. 
Chicken is the old plural of chick, though now ufed as a 
lingular noun.] The young of a bird, particularly of a 
hen, or fmall bird.—Having the notion that one laid the 
egg out of which the other was hatched, I have a clear 
idea of the relation of dam and chick. Locke. —A word of 
tendernefs.—A term for a young girl: 
Then, Chloe, ftill go on to prate 
Of thirty-fix and thirty-eight; 
Purfue your trade of fcandal-picking, 
Your hints, that Stella is no chicken. Swift. 
“ Though the fox runs, the chicken has wings.” That is, 
as wife as the deceitful may think themfelves, innocence 
is feldom fo unguarded, but it has fome defence or protec¬ 
tion; and if no other, always that of providence. “ To 
reckon one’s chickens before they are hatch’d.” Lat. Ante 
<vittoriam encomium cancre, PI. in Lyf. (to fing triumph be¬ 
fore the vidtory;) and fo the French, Chanter le triomphe 
avant la vidoire. The Germans fay, Ih rufft haafe, ehe 
dann er im netsze liegt, (You cry out hare, before he is in 
the net.) To be too forward in one’s dependance. 
CHICK-PEA, / in botany. See Cicer. 
CHICKAHO'MINY, a navigable river in Virginia. At 
its mouth in James river, thirty-feven miles from Point 
Comfort, in Chefapeak bay, is a bar, on which is only 
twelve feet water at common flood tide. 
CHICKAMA'GES, a part of the Cherokee nation of 
Indians, known by this name, inhabit five, villages on 
Tenneflee river. 
CHICKASAW', on the eaftern bank of the Mifllflippi, 
within the territories of the American States, in lat. 35. 
N. The Spaniards eredted here a ftrong ftockaded fort, 
with cannon, and furnilhed it with troops, all in the fpace 
of twenty-four hours, in the month of June, 1795. It 
has fince been given up to the American States, accord¬ 
ing to the treaty of 1796. 
CHICKASAW', a river of North America which emp¬ 
ties into the Mifllflippi on the eaft fide, 104 fifties north 
from the mouth of Margot, and fixty-feven fouth-weft of 
Mine-au-fer. The lands here are of an excellent quality, 
and covered with a variety of ufeful timber, canes, &c. 
This river may be afcended, during lfigh floods, upwards 
of thirty miles, with boats of feveral tons burden. 
CHIKAS AW'S, a famous nation of American Indians, 
who inhabit the country on the eaft fide of the Mifllflippi, 
on the head branches of the Tombigbee, Mobile, and 
Yazoo, rivers, in the north-weft corner of the ftate of 
Georgia, and north of the country of the Chadtaws. 
Their country is an extenfive plain, well watered from 
fprings, and of a good foil. They have feven towns, the 
central one of which is in lat. 34. 23. N. Ion. 89. 30. W. 
In 1539, Ferdinand de Soto, with 900 men, befides fea- 
men, failed from Cuba with a delign to conquer Florida. 
He travelled northward to the Chickafaw country, about 
lat. 35. or 36. and three years after died, and was buried 
on the bank of Mifllflippi river. 
CHICKENHEART'ED, adj. Cowardly ; timorous; 
fearful: 
Now we fet up for tilting in the pit. 
Where ’tis agreed by bullies, chickenhearted , 
To fright the ladies firft, and then be parted. 
Prologue to Spanijh Fry at, 
Vol. IV. No. 298. 
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CIIIC'KENPOX, f. An exanthematous diftemper, fo 
called from its being of no very great danger. See Me¬ 
dicine. 
CHICK'WEED,/ in botany. See Alsina and Are- 
naria. Baftard, lee Bufonia. Water, fee Callt- 
trighe, 
CHICLA'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of La 
Mancha : twenty-two miles north of Ubeda. 
CHICOMUZE'LO, a town in the province of Chiapa, 
in New Spain, having a cave very narrow at the entry, 
but fpacious within, with a ftagnant lake, which is, how¬ 
ever, clear, and is two fathoms deep towards the banks. 
CHICOYNEAU' (Francois), firft phyfician to the 
French king, was born at Montpellier in 1672. Having 
obtained his doctor's degree, he was fent to flop the pro- 
grefs of the plague then raging at Marfeilles, by the duke 
of Orleans, regent of the kingdom. The boldnefs and 
confidence with which he entered that city, where every 
one feemed only waiting for death, had a ftriking effedt 
on their fears. He encouraged the inhabitants, and 
quieted their alarms by his prefence ; hope feemed to re¬ 
animate every breaft, and his fuccefs was beyond expec¬ 
tation, His fervices were rewarded by marks of honour 
and a penfion from the king. In 1731 he was called to 
court to be phyfician to the royal children, by the iri- 
tereft of Chirac, whofe daughter he had married; and 
after whofe death he was made firft phyfician to the king, 
counfellor of ftate, and fuperintendant of the mineral 
waters of the kingdom. He died at Verfailles in 1752, 
aged near eighty. The molt curious of his works is that 
wherein he maintains that the plague is not contagious ; 
Lyons and Paris, 1721, imio. 
To CHIDE, <v. a. preter. chid or chode, part, chid or 
chidden-, [ciban, Sax.] To reprove; to check ; to corredl 
with words : applied to perfons: 
Above the waves as Neptune Ihew’d his face, 
To chide the winds, and lave the Trojan race. Waller. 
To drive with reproof.—To blame; to reproach ; applied 
to things: 
Winds murmur’d through the leaves your long delay. 
And fountains, o’er the pebbles, chid your ftay. Drjd. 
To CHIDE, r u. n. To clamour; to fcold : 
The mother feream’d, the father chid. 
Where can this idle wench be hid ? Swift . 
To quarrel with ; to make a noife : 
As does a rock againft the chiding flood, 
Should the approach of this wild river break, 
And Hand unfhaken yours. Shakefpeare. 
“ Woe to the lioufe where there is no chiding." Where 
the matters or heads of families, or parents of children., 
are fo remifs as never to find fault or correct, libertinifm 
will gradually creep into and get the upper hand; and 
in fuch families woe will as certainly enfue. 
CHI'DER,/. A rebuker ; a reprover : 
Not her that chides, fir, at any hand, I pray.— 
I love no chiders, fir. Shakefpeare. 
CHIEF, adj. \_chef, the head, Fr.] Principal; moft emi¬ 
nent ; above the reft in any refpeft.—Thefe were the chief 
of the officers that were over Solomon’s works. 1 Kings. 
Your country, chief in arms, abroad defend ; 
At home, with morals, arts, and laws, amend. Pope. 
Eminent; extraordinary—A froward man foweth ftrife, 
and a whifperer feparateth chief friends. Proverbs. —Ca¬ 
pital ; of the firft order; that to which other parts are in¬ 
ferior, or fubordinate,—I came to have a good general 
view of the apoftle’s main purpofe in writing the epiftle, 
and the chief branches of his difeourfe wherein he profe- 
cuted it. Locke. —It is ufed by fome writers with a fuper- 
lative termination ; but improperly, as the comparative 
ebisfer is never found: 
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