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† chithe Obs. [OE. cíð 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.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxxiii. vi, Ðu meaht gesion lytelne ciþ on ðines broður eaᵹan. Ðæt is se smala ciið. c1000ælfric Deut. xxxii. 2 Swa dropan ofer gærsa ciþas. ― Hom. (Thorpe) I. 100 Hwæt eac seo eorðe cyð mid hire ciðum. a1100in Wr.-Wülcker 416 Gramina, ciþas. 2. Applied to the filamentous organs in flowers, esp. to the style or stigma: see chive n.2, and chire.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xci. (Br. M. MS. addit. 27944) De Lilio, And þe flour [lilye] haþ wiþinne, as it were, smal þrede þat conteyneþ þe seed. In þe myddil stondeþ chiþes of saffran [Pliny stantibus in medio crocis; MS. Bodl. chiþes; Harl. 814 chiris, Harl. 4789 schyres; ed. W. de Worde 1495 chiers: see also chire, chive n.2]. |