Chibbal
(Chib"bal) n. (Bot.) See Cibol.
Chibouque
(||Chi*bouque", Chi*bouk") n. [F. chibouque, fr. Turk.] A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece
of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.
Chic
(||Chic) n. [F.] Good form; style. [Slang]
Chica
(||Chi"ca) n. [Sp.] A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some
tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.
2. A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.
3. A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.
Chicane
(Chi*cane") n. [F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr.
the game of mall, fr Pers chaugan club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible.] The use of
artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; — specifically
applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior.
To shuffle from them by chicane.
Burke.
To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience.
Berkeley.
Chicane
(Chi*cane"), v. i. [Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n.] To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.
Chicaner
(Chi*can"er) n. [Cf. F. chicaneur.] One who uses chicanery. Locke.
Chicanery
(Chi*can"er*y) n. [F. chicanerie.] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure
the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Irritated by perpetual chicanery.
Hallam.
Syn. — Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.
Chiccory
(Chic"co*ry) n. See Chicory.
Chich
(Chich) n.; pl. Chiches [F. chiche, pois chiche, a dwarf pea, from L. cicer the chick-pea.] (Bot.)
The chick-pea.
Chicha
(||Chi"cha) n. [Sp.] See Chica.
Chichevache
(||Chiche"vache`) n. [F. chiche lean + vache cow.] A fabulous cow of enormous size,
whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
Chichling
(Chich"ling Chich"ling vetch`) n. [Chich + -ling.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant with broad flattened
seeds which are sometimes used for food.
Chick
(Chick) v. i. [OE. chykkyn, chyke, chicken.] To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
Chalmers.
Chick
(Chick), n.
1. A chicken.
2. A child or young person; — a term of endearment. Shak.
Chickabiddy
(Chick"a*bid`dy) n. A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
