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† ˈchicken-meat, chicken's meat, chick-meat Obs.
[OE. cicena mete ‘chickens' meat’.]
Food for chickens. Hence, an old name for various plants, including endive; now dial. for chickweed.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 312 Nim..cicena mete. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 136 Modera, cicenamete. c1265Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 558 Intiba, muruns, chicnemete. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 25 Ippia minor, chiken⁓mete. a1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 119 Morsus galline, chikemete. a1500Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 712 Hec ipia, chekynmette. 1830Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Chicken's-meat, the herb chick-weed. |