Chicken pox

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• Pox

  ·vt To infect with the pox, or syphilis. II. Pox ·noun Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions...

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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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• Swine-pox

  ·noun A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water po...

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• Water pox

  ·- A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. ...

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• pox-dung

  farm-yard dung. Berks. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• 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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• 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...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mother cary's chicken

  The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. ...

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