3. A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.
Chi*cane" (?), n. [F., prob. earlier meaning a dispute, orig. in the game of mall (F. mail), fr. LGr. &?; the game of mall, fr Pers chaugān club or bat; or possibly ultimated fr. L. ciccus a trible.] The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. Prior.
To shuffle from them by chicane.
Burke.
To cut short this chicane, I propound it fairly to your own conscience.
Berkeley.
Chi*cane", v. i. [Cf. F. chicaner. See Chicane, n.] To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. Burke.
Chi*can"er (?), n. [Cf. F. chicaneur.] One who uses chicanery. Locke.
Chi*can"er*y (?), n. [F. chicanerie.] Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Irritated by perpetual chicanery.
Hallam.
Syn. -- Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.
Chic"co*ry (?), n. See Chicory.
Chich (?), n.; pl. Chiches (&?;). [F. chiche, pois chiche, a dwarf pea, from L. cicer the chick-pea.] (Bot.) The chick-pea.
||Chi"cha (?), n. [Sp.] See Chica.
||Chiche"vache` (?), n. [F. chiche lean + vache cow.] A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.
{ Chich"ling (?), Chich"ling vetch` (?), } n. [Chich + -ling.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Lathyrus sativus), with broad flattened seeds which are sometimes used for food.
Chick (ch&ibreve;k), v. i. [OE. chykkyn, chyke, chicken.] To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate. Chalmers.
Chick, n. 1. A chicken.