Chicken | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
chicken butcher
A poulterer. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
chicken-hammed
Persons whose legs and thighs are bent or archward outwards. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
chicken-hearted
Fearful, cowardly. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
chicken nabob
One returned from the East Indies with but a moderate fortune of fifty or sixty thousand pounds, a d...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
sucking chicken
A young chicken. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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