Part 159 (1/2)

_To_ CHEWYS, _v. a._ To compa.s.s, to achieve, to accomplish.

_Barbour._

~Chewysance~, ~Chewysans~, _s._ Acquirement, provision, means of sustenance.

_Wallace._

_To_ CHICK, _v. n._ To make a clicking noise, as a watch does, S.

Teut. _kick-en_, mutire, minimam vocem edere.

CHICKENWORT, _s._ Chickweed, S. Alsine media, Linn.

From _chicken_ and _wort_, an herb.

CHIEL, CHIELD, _s._

1. A servant.

_Chamber-cheil_, a servant who waits in a gentleman's chamber, a valet.

_Pitscottie._

Su. G. _kullt_, a boy, _kulla_, a girl, _kulle_, offspring. Or _Child_, q. v. corr. from O. E. p.r.o.nounced by the common people in E.

_Cheild_ or _Cheeld_.

2. A fellow, used either in a good or bad sense, although more commonly as expressive of disrespect, S.

_Ramsay._

3. A stripling, a young man, S. It is applied indifferently to a young man or woman, S. B.

_Ross._

4. An appellation expressive of fondness, S. B.

_Ross._

_To_ CHIER, CHEIR, _v. a._ To cut, to wound.

_Chr. Kirk._

A. S. _scear-an_, _scer-an_, tondere. Cheard, which occurs in the same stanza, seems to be the pret. of the _v._