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"t": "a young animal, cub, whelp"
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"ref": "1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, Chapter VI",
"text": "Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Petronius Arbiter, translated by W. C. Firebaugh, Satyricon, Chapter 56",
"text": "“These are returns,” I said, “quite fit\nTo me, who nursed you when a chit.\nFor shame, lay by this envious art;\nIs this to act a sister's part?”",
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"A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal."
],
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[
"babe",
"babe"
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"glosses": [
"A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman."
],
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"pert",
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[
"sassy",
"sassy"
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"text": "the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes"
},
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"ref": "1721, John Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry: Or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land, page 217",
"text": "The Barley after it has been couched four or five days in cold Weather will sweat a little, and begin to show the Chit or Sprit at the Root-end of the Corn,",
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],
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"The embryonic growing bud of a plant"
],
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[
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"bud"
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"word": "shoot"
},
{
"word": "sprout"
},
{
"word": "seedling"
}
],
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"_dis1": "96 4",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rostók",
"sense": "a shoot, a sprout",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "росто́к"
}
]
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"An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple."
],
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"pimple",
"pimple"
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"(obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple."
],
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]
}
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"text": "I have known it chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth of the Cistern and within three days come enough; the Maltster being forced to stir it six, seven or eight times a day,",
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"(intransitive, British, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant."
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"To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination."
],
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[
"Lupinus",
"Lupinus#Translingual"
],
[
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]
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],
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"ref": "2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, page 173",
"text": "Gardeners argue among themselves about how necessary chitting is, but I stick with tradition and do chit my seed potatoes.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil."
],
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"(transitive, British, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil."
],
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"_dis1": "24 6 70",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to initiate sprouting (of tubers)",
"word": "piquer"
},
{
"_dis1": "24 6 70",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "proráščivatʹ klúbni",
"sense": "to initiate sprouting (of tubers)",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прора́щивать клу́бни"
}
]
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"word": "beef chit"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "blood chit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "chit fund"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "clean chit"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "goolie chit"
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"5": "letter, note, written message"
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"A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message."
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"(dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message."
],
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"tags": [
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"roman": "ciṭhṭhī",
"sense": "scrap of paper with a hand-written note",
"word": "ચિઠ્ઠી"
},
{
"_dis1": "64 5 15 5 4 6",
"code": "pl",
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"sense": "scrap of paper with a hand-written note",
"tags": [
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"roman": "zapíska",
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"tags": [
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],
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"word": "చీటీ"
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"tags": [
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"Medicine",
"Biology",
"Chemistry",
"Sciences",
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"A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip."
],
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[
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"scrip#Etymology_4"
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"(pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip."
],
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"medicine",
"pharmacology",
"sciences"
]
},
{
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"Recreation",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
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