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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Chicken

/chĭk'ĭn/ · Chick·en · IPA /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪn/
01 n. A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
  1. 1.
    A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.
  2. 2.
    A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken. Also: spring chicken
Phrases & compounds
Chicken cholera — a contagious disease of fowls; -- so called because first studied during the prevalence of a cholera epidemic in France. It has no resemblance to true cholera.