Vocabulary : Chickadee to Chickweed
Chickadee : A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note.
Chickaree : The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry.
Chickasaws : A tribe 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.
Chicken : A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. ;; A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.
Chicken pox : A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.
Chicken-breasted : Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
Chicken-hearted : Timid; fearful; cowardly.
Chickling : A small chick or chicken.
Chick-pea : A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram. ;; Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.
Chickweed : The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds.
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