Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Chit"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chit \Chit\, Chitty \Chit"ty\, n. [Hind. chi[.t][.t][=i].]
1. A short letter or note; a written message or memorandum; a
certificate given to a servant; a pass, or the like.
2. A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for
food and drinks at a club. [India, China, etc.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chit \Chit\, v. i.
To shoot out; to sprout.
I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had
been thrown forth. --Mortimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chit \Chit\, 3d sing. of {Chide}.
Chideth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chit \Chit\ (ch[i^]t), n. [Cf. AS. c[=i][eth] shoot, sprig, from
the same root as c[=i]nan 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.
2. A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small,
or insignificant person or animal.
A little chit of a woman. --Thackeray.
3. An excrescence on the body, as a wart. [Obs.]
4. A small tool used in cleaving laths. --Knight.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
chit
n : the bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the
check" [syn: {check}, {tab}]
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