Word Meanings - PULLUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chick; a young bird in the downy stage.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• CHICK
  To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. Chalmers.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• CHICKABIDDY
  A chicken; a fowl; also, a trivial term of endearment for a child.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• CHICK-PEA
  A Small leguminous plant of Asia, Africa, and the sounth of Europe; the chick; the dwarf pea; the gram. 2. Its nutritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted , as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.
• CHICKADEE
  A small bird, the blackcap titmouse , of North America; -- named from its note.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• CHICKLING
  A small chick or chicken.
• STAGELY
  Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• CHICKY
  A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• CHICKEN-HEARTED
  Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• DOBCHICK
  See DABCHICK
• ELLACHICK
  A fresh-water tortoise of California; -- used as food.
• DIPCHICK
  See DABCHICK
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
• DABCHICK
  A small water bird , 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.
• BALLASTAGE
  A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• WATER CHICKEN
  The common American gallinule.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.