अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

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.

A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.

To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.

A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.

A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.

A short throw; a toss.

A slight blow or pat under the chin.

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.

To call, as a hen her chickens.

A sudden, small noise.

The chuck or call of a hen.

To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.