Chisley

1. a. Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; — said of a soil.

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Chivalry

1. n. Exploit.
2. n. A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
3. n. The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
4. n. The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
5. n. A tenure of lands by knight’s service; that is, by the condition of a knight’s performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

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Chit

1. 3d sing. Chideth.
2. n. The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.
3. n. A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
4. n. An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
5. n. A small tool used in cleaving laths.
6. v. i. To shoot out; to sprout.

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Chitchat

1. n. Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

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Chitin

1. n. A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.

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Chitinization

1. n. The process of becoming chitinous.

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Chitinous

1. a. Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin.

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Chiton

1. n. One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.
2. n. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.

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Chitter

1. v. i. To shiver or chatter with cold.
2. v. i. To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.

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Chitterling

1. n. The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings.

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