chavicin, chavicine (chav is in)

[ Peevish; I. trans. chawl (cha), v. [A var. of chew , q. v.] 1. Same as chew, 1. [Now only dialectal or vulgar.] I am in love: revenge is now the cud That I do chaw . Fletcher ( and another ), Queen of Corinth, iv. 1. [Love] swallows us and never chaws ;.. He is the tyrant pike, and we the fry. 21. Same as chew, 2. Chawing venge a unce all the way I went. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 29. O. W. Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece. chay2, chaya-root (cha, chā'ä-röt), n . Same as shaya -root.