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noun

Chit n.

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. "A little chit of a woman."

An excrescence on the body, as a wart. (Obs.)

A small tool used in cleaving laths.

Chitty, Chit n.

A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.

A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club. (India, China, etc.)

verb

Chit v. i. To shoot out; to sprout. "I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth."

Chit 3d pers. sing. pres. (3d pers. sing. pres. of Chide) Chideth. (Obs.)

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"Chit" Quotes from Famous Books

... childish fashion. If the man meant at last to be honest, there could be no doubt, Mrs Hurtle thought, that the girl would go to him. It would require no interference of hers. But after a while she thought that she might as well see this English chit who had superseded herself in the affections of the Englishman she had condescended to love. And if it were the case that all revenge was to be abandoned, that no punishment was to be exacted in return for all the injury that had been done, why should ...

— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope

... resolved never to speak of her to the other again. Josephine was already regretting the frankness that had led her to expose a not too attractive part of herself—and to exaggerate in his eyes the importance of a really insignificant chit of a typewriter. When he went to bed that night he was resolved to have Tetlow find Miss Hallowell a ...

— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips

... I? A silly chit of a thing, with about a dozen ideas in my head, nearly every one of which was planted there by Hope. I like the nonsense of the world very well as it is, and without her I should have cared for nothing else. Count Posen asked ...

— Malbone - An Oldport Romance • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... name, nor would I want her to. I love the sex. My mother was a woman— I hope my wife will be, and wholly human. And if she wants to make some sacrifice, I'll think her far more sensible and wise To let her husband reap the benefit, Instead of some old maid or senseless chit. Selfish? Of course! I hold all love is so: And I shall love my wife right well, I know. Now there's a point regarding selfish love, You thirst to argue with me, and disprove. But since these cosy hours will soon be gone And all our meetings broken in upon, No ...

— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... no! 'Twas all afower Gra-anny Marrable come here to marry Farmer Marrable—he was her second, ye know. I was a bit of a chit then. And Ruth Thrale was fower or five years yoonger. She was all one as if she was the Gra-anny's own child. But she was noa such ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

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