Obs. [a. F. chaton kitten, catkin, dim. of chat cat.] A catkin.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. lvi. 730. [The walnut tree] bringeth foorth long tentes or yellowe ragged things … hanging vpon the tree, like smal Cattes tayles … longer then the Chattons of Whythie…. After these tentes or Catkens, the leaues showe.
