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A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
Having a plump, short face.
Chubby.
The state of being chubby.
Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.
To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
To chuckle; to laugh.
To call, as a hen her chickens.
The chuck or call of a hen.
A sudden, small noise.
A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
A slight blow or pat under the chin.
A short throw; a toss.
A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.