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noun
- A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
- A pert young woman
- The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout.
- the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
- (obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart.
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verb (chits, chitting, chitted) (UK, dialect)
- (intransitive) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
- (transitive) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
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