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Acorns, plump as Chibbals.

The Gipsies Metamorphosed.—Ben Jonson.

Ciboules are a small kind of onion; De la Quintinye says, “Onions degenerated.” From the reference to them in Piers Plowman, they were evidently in common use here in the time of Langlande. The French gardener adds that they are “propagated only by seeds of the bignes of a corn of ordinary gun-powder,” and Mr. Britten identifies them with Scallions or Shallot (A. ascalonium).