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chequeen
chequeen, chequin arch. (tʃɪˈkiːn) Forms: 6 checkyn, chikino, (sechino), chekin, 7 chickin, -een(e, -en, chechin, cecchine, chiquiney, -ie, chicquin, checqine, chekeen, 7–8 chequin, chequeen, 8 shekin. See also sequin, zecchin. [ad. It. zecchino (tsekˈkino), (tʃ) being the nearest Eng. sound to (ts)...
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cichin
cichin obs. f. chequeen, sequin.1682 Wheler Journ. Greece i. 31 Five thousand Cichins.
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zecchin
zecchin (ˈzɛkɪn) Forms: 6–7 zechine, 7 -yne, 8–9 zechin, (8 zeckin, zequeen), 7– zecchin, -ine. [ad. It. zecchino, f. zecca the mint at Venice = Sp. seca, a. Arab. sekkah coin.] A former gold coin of Venice and Turkey: = chequeen, sequin 1.1575 Gascoigne Flowers Wks. 1907 I. 77 Zechines of glisterin...
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sequin
▪ I. sequin, n. (ˈsiːkwɪn) Also 8 zequin. See also chequeen, zecchin. [a. F. sequin, ad. It. zecchino, f. zecca the mint (= Sp. seca), ad. Arab. sikka{suph} die for coining, whence sicca1.] 1. Hist. An Italian gold coin (originally Venetian); for its value, see quot. 1788. Also used as a name for a ...
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chicken-hazard
ˈchicken-ˈhazard [Chicken is here, and in the earlier chicken stake, generally taken in the sense of ‘small, comparatively harmless’. Col. Yule suggests its origination in chickeen, chequeen, as if a hazard or stake not exceeding that amount.] A game at dice: see hazard.a 1845 Barham Ingol. Leg., Ld...
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chick
▪ I. chick, n.1 (tʃɪk) Forms: 4–5 chike, chyke, 5–6 chyk, 6 chik, (cheke), 6–7 chicke, 6– chick. [A shortened form of chicken n.1 Probably in its origin merely a phonetic development, the final n being (in some dialects) lost, as in the inflexion of nouns and verbs, and the resulting final e then di...
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chicken
▪ I. chicken, n.1 (ˈtʃɪkɪn) Forms: 1 cicen, (ciken, ciccen), 2, 4–6 chiken, 4– chicken. (4 chykin, chekon, 4–5 cheken, 4–6 chyken, 5 chykyn, -on, -ynge, chycon, checon, schecon, schekyn, 5–6 chekyn, chikyn, 6 cheekyne, 6–7 chickin, 7 (?) chikin, chicking.) pl. 1 cicenu, 2–3 chikene, 4 chikenes, -ys,...
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