2. To chirp, without necessarily implying the idea of a melancholy note, S.
3. To be peevish, to be habitually complaining, S.
Belg. _kerm-en_, lamentari, quiritari, Isl. _jarmr_, vox avium, garritus.
2. To act in a griping manner; also, to squeeze or practise extortion, S.
CHIT, _s._ A small bit of bread, or of any kind of food, S.
2. To chatter. The teeth are said to _chitter_, when they strike against each other, S.
Teut. _tsitter-en_, Germ. _schutt-ern_, to quiver.
CHITTER-LILLING, _s._ An opprobrious term.
Perhaps the same as E. _chitterlin_, the intestines.
_To_ CHIZZEL, _v. a._ To cheat, to act deceitfully, S. B. _Chouse_, E.
Belg. _kweezel-en_, to act hypocritically.
CHOKKEIS, pronounced _chouks_, _s. pl._ The jaws, properly the glandular parts under the jaw-bones, S.
Isl. _kalke_, _kialke_, maxilla, the jaws, _kuok_, gula, faux bruti.
~Chok-band~, _s._ The small strip of leather by which a bridle is fastened around the jaws of a horse, S.
A. S. _ceole_, faucis, _ceolas_, fauces, the jaws.
CHOLER, CHULLER, CHURL, _s._ A double-chin, S.
_To_ CHORP, _v. n._ To emit a creaking sound, Loth.
CHOWS, _s. pl._ A smaller kind of coal, much used in forges, S.; perhaps from Fr. _chou_, the general name of coal.
_To_ CHOWTLE, CHUTTLE, _v. n._ To chew feebly, as a child, or an old person does, S.
CHUCKIE, _s._ A low or cant term for a hen, S.
Teut. _keyken_, a small flint; if not from the circumstance of such stones being swallowed by domestic fowls.
2. A game, used by girls, in tossing up, and catching pebbles as they fall, is called the _Chuckie-stanes_.
CHUKIS, _s. pl._ Apparently, a swelling of the jaws.
CHUM, _s._ Food, provision for the belly, Clydes. _Scaff_, synon.
_To_ CIRCUMJACK, _v. n._ To correspond with, W. Loth.
CYSTEWS, _s. pl._ Cistertian monks; Fr. _Cistaws_.
L. B. _citola_, Fr. _citole_, an instrument with cords.
CLAAICK, CLAWICK, _s._ The autumnal feast, or harvest-home, Aberd.; synon. _Maiden_. When the harvest is early finished, it is called the _Maiden Claaick_; when late, the _Carlin Claaick_.
CLACHAN, CLAUCHANNE, _s._ A small village, bordering on the Highlands, in which there is a parish-church, S. Elsewhere, it is called the _kirk-town_.
From Gael. _clachan_, "a circle of stones;" as churches were erected in the same places, which, in times of heathenism, had been consecrated to Druidical worship.
