The part that placed me [_Walter Lacy_] in the position of a light comedian was "Cheveril," in _The Steward_, altered from Holcroft's _Deserted Daughter._--W. Lacy, _Letter to W.C. Russell_. CHIBIA'BOS, the Harmony of Nature personified; a musician, the friend of Hiawatha, and ruler in the land of spirits. When he played on his pipe, the "brooks ceased to murmur, the wood-birds to sing, the squirrel to chatter, and the rabbit sat upright to look and listen." He was drowned in Lake Superior by the breaking of the ice. Most beloved by Hiawatha Was the gentle Chibiabos; He the best of all musicians, He the sweetest of all singers. Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, vi. and xv. _Chibiabos_, venerable chief in _The Myth of Hiaiwatha and Other Oral Legends of North American Indians_, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1856). CHICANEAU _(She'.ka.no')_, a litigious tradesman in _Les Plaideurs_, by Racine, (1668). CHICH'I-VACHE (3 _syl_.), a monster that fed only on good women. The word means the "sorry cow." It was all skin and bone, because its food was so extremely scarce. (See BYCORN.) O noble wyvês, full of heigh prudence, Let noon humilitie your tongês nayle., Lest Chichi-Vache you swalwe in her entraile. Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ ("Clerk's Tale," 1388). CHICK _(Mr.)_, brother-in-law of Mr. Dombey; a stout gentleman, with a tendency to whistle and hum airs at inopportune moments. Mr. Chick is somewhat henpecked; but in the matrimonial squalls, though apparently beaten, he not unfrequently rises up the superior and gets his own way. _Louisa Chick_, Mr. Dombey's married sister. She is of a snappish temper, but dresses in the most juvenile style, and is persuaded that anything can be accomplished if persons will only "make an effort."--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). CHICKEN _(The)_, Michael Angelo Taylor, barrister, so called because in his maiden speech, 1785, he said, "I deliver this opinion with great deference, being but a chicken in the profession of the law." _Chicken_ (_The Game_), a low fellow, to be heard of at the bar of the Black Badger. Mr. Toots selects this man as his instructor in fencing, betting, and self-defence. The Chicken has short hair, a low forehead, a broken nose, and "a considerable tract of bare and sterile country behind each ear."--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ (1846). CHICKENS AND THE AUGURS. When the augurs told Publius Claudius Pulcher, the Roman consul, who was about to engage the Carthaginian fleet, that the sacred chickens would not eat, he replied, "Then toss them into the sea, that they may drink." CHICK'ENSTALKER (_Mrs_.), a stout, bonny, kind-hearted woman, who keeps a general shop. Toby Veck, in his dream, imagines her married to Tugby, the porter of sir Joseph Bowley.--C. Dickens, _The Chimes_ (1844).