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chithe
† chithe Obs. [OE. c{iacu}ð young shoot, sprout, germ = OS. kîð, OHG. kîdi (MHG. kîde, Ger. dial. keide):—OTeut. *kîþó-z f. root ki- to split, sprout: see chine n.1, v.1] 1. A tiny shoot, sprout, or blade of grass or any plant; a glume or awn of chaff, a mote.c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxxiii. ...
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chyde
▪ I. † chyde Obs. rare.c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 777 Hic fax, a chyde.▪ II. chyde obs. variant of chithe, chive.c 1485 E.E. Misc. (1856) 77 A chyde of saffrone.
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chire
▪ I. † chire1 Obs. Also 4 schyre, 5 chyre, 6 chyer, 7 chier, cheyre. [This appears first as a variant reading for chipe; subseq. chive appears as a variant of this. What are the precise relations between chithe, chire, chive, it is difficult to say; chive might be a phonetic corruption of chithe or ...
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chive
▪ I. chive, n.1 (tʃaɪv) Also cive (saɪv). Forms: 5 cyves, -ys, 5–7 cyve, 6 chyve, 6, 8 sive, (9 shive), 6– chive, cive. [In form cive a. F. cive = Pr. ceba:—L. cēpa, cæpa onion. The form chive prob. represents a North Fr. chive. (Cf. rive:—ripa; cire:—cera.) It is probable that sense 2 is orig. the ...
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chit
▪ I. chit, n.1 (tʃɪt) [Often identified with chit n.3, but found more than two centuries earlier, and at a time when the latter (if it existed at all) existed as chīthe. Seeing how this constantly renders catulus, we may compare it with kitten, kitling. Cf. also the Cheshire dial. chit, Sc. cheet ‘p...
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