n. A chicken; particularly, the young of the domestic hen, and of some other birds, as partridges.To peep; cheep; make the characteristic cry of a young chick.To sprout, as seed in the ground; vegetate.To crack.n. A crack; a flaw.n. In India, a screen or curtain made of thin slips of bamboo with very narrow openings between them, allowing the admission of air and light, while excluding the view from the outside: it is hung in doorways and windows, both in houses and tents, and is the original of a kind of blind or shade now common in Europe and America.n. A name for the thick juice of the poppy, three pounds of which will make about one pound of opium.n. An abbreviated form of chickeen.