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Chicken
·noun A young bird or fowl, ·esp. a young barnyard fowl. II. Chicken ·noun A young person; a child;...

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Chicken pox
·- A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. ...

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Chicken-breasted
·adj Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. ...

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Chicken-hearted
·adj Timid; fearful; cowardly. ...

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Water chicken
·- The common American gallinule. ...

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chicken-breasted
Said of a woman with scarce any breasts. ...

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chicken butcher
A poulterer. ...

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chicken-hearted
Fearful, cowardly. ...

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chicken nabob
One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a d...

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sucking chicken
A young chicken. ...

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chicken-fixings
In the Western States, a chicken fricassee. We trotted on very fast, in the assurance of rapidly ap...

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mother cary's chicken
The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. ...

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