An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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_To_ CHEWYS, _v. a._ To compa.s.s, to achieve, to accomplish.
_Barbour._
~Chewysance~, ~Chewysans~, _s._ Acquirement, provision, means of sustenance.
_Wallace._
_To_ CHICK, _v. n._ To make a clicking noise, as a watch does, S.
Teut. _kick-en_, mutire, minimam vocem edere.
CHICKENWORT, _s._ Chickweed, S. Alsine media, Linn.
From _chicken_ and _wort_, an herb.
CHIEL, CHIELD, _s._
1. A servant.
_Chamber-cheil_, a servant who waits in a gentleman's chamber, a valet.
_Pitscottie._
Su. G. _kullt_, a boy, _kulla_, a girl, _kulle_, offspring. Or _Child_, q. v. corr. from O. E. p.r.o.nounced by the common people in E.
_Cheild_ or _Cheeld_.
2. A fellow, used either in a good or bad sense, although more commonly as expressive of disrespect, S.
_Ramsay._
3. A stripling, a young man, S. It is applied indifferently to a young man or woman, S. B.
_Ross._
4. An appellation expressive of fondness, S. B.
_Ross._
_To_ CHIER, CHEIR, _v. a._ To cut, to wound.
_Chr. Kirk._
A. S. _scear-an_, _scer-an_, tondere. Cheard, which occurs in the same stanza, seems to be the pret. of the _v._
CHIERE, _s._ Chair.
_King's Quair._
CHILD, CHYLD, _s._ A servant, a page.
_Wallace._
In O. E., a youth, especially one of high birth, before he was advanced to the honour of knighthood.
A. S. _cild_; like L. _infans_, Fr. _enfant_, Hisp. _infant_, transferred to the heir apparent of a sovereign.
~Childer~, _pl._ Children, S. Lancash.
A. S. _cildru_, pueri.
_Wallace._
CHILD-ILL, _s._ Labour, pains of child-bearing.
_Barbour._
CHYMES, s. A chief dwelling.
V. ~Chemys~.
CHYMOUR, ~Chymer~, _s._ A light gown, E. _cymar_.
_Maitland Poems._
Fr. _chamarre_, a loose and light gown. Ital. _ciamare_, Belg.
_samare_.
CHIMNEY, CHIMLEY, _s._ A grate, S.
_Burrow Lawes._
Corn. _tschimbla_, a chimney.
~Chimley-brace~, _s._ The mantle-piece, S.
~Chimla-lug~, _s._ The fire-side, S.
