sucking chicken

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• Sucking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Suck>>. II. Sucking ·adj Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquia...

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• sucking

  The action of the pump when the well is nearly dry, or at least so low at the pump-foot as to admit ...

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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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• Wind-sucking

  ·noun A vicious habit of a horse, consisting in the swallowing of air; — usually associated with cr...

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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-hammed

  Persons whose legs and thighs are bent or archward outwards. ...

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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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• 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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