Same as black cap{ 1b }. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ OE. chykkyn, chyke, chicken. ] To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A chicken. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A child or young person; -- a term of endearment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a young woman; -- often considered offensive. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse (Parus atricapillus), of North America; -- named from its note. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus Hudsonius, formerly Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so called from its cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Chickasaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian) allied to the Choctaws. They formerly occupied the northern part of Alabama and Mississippi, but now live in the Indian Territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cicen, cyceun, dim. of coc cock; akin to LG. kiken, küken, D. Kieken, kuiken, G. küchkein. See Cock the animal. ] 1. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. “Stella is no chicken.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chicken cholera, a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a trifling sum of money.
Syn. -- small change. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Timid; fearful; cowardly; easily frightened. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear. [ slang ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the far western U.S. counterpart of the red squirrel.
Syn. -- Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A sentimental motion picture that appeals particularly to women. See flick, n., movie. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

n. [ Chick + -ling. ] A small chick or chicken. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chich. ] 1. (Bot.) A Small leguminous plant (Cicer arietinum) of Asia, Africa, and the south of Europe; the chich; the dwarf pea; the gram. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The name of several caryophyllaceous weeds, especially Stellaria media, the seeds and flower buds of which are a favorite food of small birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For dabchick. See Dap, Dip, cf. Dipchick. ] (Zool.) A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobchick, dipchick, didapper, dobber, devil-diver, hell-diver, and pied-billed grebe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Dabchick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Any object, usually a tool or other device, whose name is forgotten, or not known.
Syn. -- thingumbob, whatchamacallit, whachamacallit. [ PJC ]

n. [ Native Indian name. ] (Zoöl.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.
Syn. -- yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. rural. Opposite of urban. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.
Syn. -- bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. (Elec.) A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box, or on a pipe. [ PJC ]

2. A red mark on the skin, caused by a passionate, sucking kiss at that location. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

3. a doohickey. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

n. [ North American Indian pawcohiccora (Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from pounded hickory nuts. “Pohickory” is named in a list of Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to “hickory.” J. H. Trumbull. ] (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hickory shad. (Zool.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member or follower of the “liberal” party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. i. See Hiccough.

{ } n. [ OE., also hyghwhele, highawe. ] The lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor) of Europe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ Prob. of Russ. goluishka bare of possessions, offspring, etc., fr. golui&ibreve_; naked. ] (Zool.) A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

☞ The holluschickie are the seals that may legally be killed for their skins.

But he'll lie down on the killing grounds where the holluschickie go. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as jimdandy.
Syn. -- jimdandy, crackerjack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The chicken of the peacock. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A fleshy plant (Arenaria peploides) growing in large tufts in the sands of the northern Atlantic seacoast; -- called also sea sandwort, and sea purslane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Imitative. ] A slight sound such as that made by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth and explosively sucking out the air at one side, as in urging on a horse. -- v. i. To make a tchick. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Compar. Thicker superl. Thickest. ] [ OE. thicke, AS. þicce; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel. þykkr, þjökkr, and probably to Gael. & Ir. tiugh. Cf. Tight. ] 1. Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Were it as thick as is a branched oak. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. “In a thick, misty day.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring. [ 1913 Webster ]

The people were gathered thick together. Luke xi. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We have been thick ever since. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n., 7. --
Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve. J. Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He through a little window cast his sight
Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. --
Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through thick and thin she followed him. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. þicce. ] 1. Frequently; fast; quick. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [ Obs. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ Cf. AS. þiccian. ] To thicken. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The nightmare Life-in-death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bullfinch. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thickened p. pr. & vb. n. Thickening. ] To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To strengthen; to confirm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And this may to thicken other proofs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become thick. “Thy luster thickens when he shines by.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. þiccet. See Thick, a. ] A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A thick-headed or stupid person. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright-colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a thick skull; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat thick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A stone curlew. See under Stone. [ 1913 Webster ]