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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.