[see -HOOD.] The state or condition of a chick. Cf. CHICKENHOOD.
1842. Leeds Intelligencer, 22 Oct., 7/3. The young gentleman and his sister differ in no respect from the ordinary poultry of the present day in their chick-hood.
1850. Fraser’s Mag., XLI. 287. Obliged to take to the nest again in his second chickhood. Ibid. (1854), XLIX. 109. [She] laid an egg in the home of her chick-hood.
