n. [ Cf. AS. cīð shoot, sprig, from the same root as cīnan to yawn. See Chink a cleft. ] 1. The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

A little chit of a woman. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shoot out; to sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3d pers. sing. of Chide. Chideth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Chat, by way of reduplication. ] Familiar or trifling talk; prattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chiton. ] (Chem.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of becoming chitinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the nature of chitin; consisting of, or containing, chitin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. small intestines of hogs prepared as food.
Syn. -- chitterlings. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; a chiton (in sense 1). ] 1. An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast (Rhamnus purshianus or Rhamnus purshiana), whose bark is the cascara sagrada, used as a mild cathartic or laxative.
Syn. -- cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a deciduous tree of SE U.S. and Mexico.
Syn. -- false buckthorn, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a shrubby tree of southern U.S. (Cotinus obovatus) having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke; -- called also American smoke tree.
Syn. -- American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]