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Webster 1913 Edition
Chicken
Chick′en
,Noun.
[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.
2.
A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as
“Stella is no chicken.” spring chicken
. Swift.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chicken
CHICKEN
,Noun.
1.
The young of fowls, particularly of the domestic hen, or gallinaceous fowls.2.
A person of tender years.3.
A word of tenderness.