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131 Cheese et. Stop it, i.e., Dont go on quarrelling so. Callington. Chet. A newly born cat. This is a Celtic Cornish word. Kittens born in May used to be drowned, that month being thought unhealthy and unlucky. "May chets bad luck begets." Cheevy. Thin, miserable looking. M.A.c. Chewidden day. '^ (Jeu-whydn, Cornish.) White Thursday. That is one clear week before Christmas day, it being the day on which black tin or ore was first turned into white tin, or metal." u.j.t. Chick. To crouch down. To " chicky down." (The sitting oestrum in hens. c.) Chicker. The wheatear. Polwhele. Also chick-chack. ( ChicJc-chacJcer, M. A. c. ) Chiff-chafF. The white-throat. Sylvia hippolais. Ogilvie. Childermas day. Innocents' day. Chill. A small earthenware lamp. Anciently in use. Chimbley. A chimney. Shimhla in Celtic Cornish. Chipper. The cross-bill. M.A.c. Chitter. Thin. Chitter-face. The face thin and furrowed. c. Chitterlings. The shirt frills of former days. M.A.C. Chives. A kind of small onions, called also, chive garlic. Ogilvie. Used cut up to flavour broth. Allium shcenopmsum.