Child.  To eat a child; to partake of a treat given to the
  parish officers, in part of commutation for a bastard child
  the common price was formerly ten pounds and a greasy
  chiu.  See greasy chin.

Chimney chops.  An abusive appellation for a negro.

Chink.  Money.

Chip.  A child.  A chip of the old block; a child who either
  in person or sentiments resembles its father or mother.

Chip.  A brother chip; a person of the same trade or calling.

Chips, A nick name for a carpenter.

CHIMPING merry.  Exhilarated with liquor.  Chirping glass,
  a cheerful glass, that makes the company chirp like birds
  in spring.

Chit.  An infant or baby.

CHITTERLINS.  The bowels.  There is a rumpus among my
  bowels, i.e.  I have the colic.  The frill of a shirt.

Chitty-faced. Baby-faced; said of one who has a childish
  look.

Chive, or CHIFF.  A knife, file:  or saw.  To chive the
  darbies; to file off the irons or fetters.  To chive the bouhgs
  of the frows; to cut off women’s pockets.

CHIVEY.  I gave him a good chivey; I gave him, a hearty
Scolding.

CHIVING lay.  Cutting the braces of coaches behind, on
  which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs
  the boot; also, formerly, cutting the back of the coach to
  steal the fine large wigs then worn.

Choak.  Choak away, the churchyard’s near; a jocular saying
  to a person taken with a violent fit of coughing, or who
  has swallowed any thing, as it is called the wrong way;
  Choak, chicken, more are hatching:  a like consolation.

Choak pear.  Figuratively, an unanswerable objection:  also
  a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of
  iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths
  of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and
  on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a
  number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it,
  that it could not be taken out of the mouth:  and the iron,
  being case-hardened, could not be filed:  the only methods
  of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or
  advertizing a reward for the key, These pears were also
  called pears of agony.

CHOAKING pye, or cold pye, A punishment inflicted
  on any person sleeping in company:  it consists in wrapping
  up cotton in a case or tube of paper, setting it on
  fire, and directing the smoke up the nostrils of the sleeper. 
  See HOWELL’S COTGRAVE.

Chocolate.  To give chocolate without sugar; to reprove. 
  Military term.

Choice spirit.  A thoughtless, laughing, singing, drunken fellow.