To peep; cheep; make the characteristic cry of a young chick.
noun.
A chicken; particularly, the young of the domestic hen, and of some other birds, as partridges.
To sprout, as seed in the ground; vegetate.
To crack.
noun.
An abbreviated form of chickeen.
noun.
A crack; a flaw.
noun.
A name for the thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which will make about one pound of opium.
noun.
In India, a screen or curtain made of thin slips of bamboo with very narrow openings 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.