chew the cud. [ruminate].

chic, a. (Colloq.) in good [taste], [neat].--n. good [form], [style].

chicanery, n. [trickery], chicane.

chicken, n. fowl; [hen]; [rooster]; pullet; poult; capon; pl. poultry, [brood].

chicken-hearted, a. [timid], [fearful], [cowardly].

chicken pox. varicella.

chide, v. admonish, [censure], [upbraid], [scold].

chief, n. [head], [leader], commander, chieftain, [captain].

chief, a. [leading], [supreme], [main], [head], [principal], paramount, prime, [cardinal], [major], foremost.

child, n. progeny, [offspring], [issue]; [infant], babe, [baby], tot, bairn, brat; bastard ([illegitimate]); orphan; foundling, [waif]; cockney (spoilt child); [minor]. Associated words: pediatrics, prolicide, infanticide, [puberty], philoprogenitive, philoprogenitiveness, misopedia, filicide, putti, filial, filiation, [affiliation], affiliate.