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CHICK

Volume 2 · 41 words · 1771 Edition

or Chicken, in zoology, denotes the young of the gallinaceous order of birds, especially the common hen. See Phasianus.

Chicken-pox. See Small-Pox, and Medicine.

Chick-weed, in botany. See Alsine.

Chickling pea, in botany, a name given to the lathyrus. See Lathyrus.