Webster's Dictionary 1913

3241

Chimpanzee

Chim‐pan″zee (chĭm‐păn″zē̍; 277), n. [From the native name: cf. F. chimpanzé, chimpansé, chimpanzée.] (Zoöl.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) wh...

3242

Chin

Chin (chĭn), n. [AS. cin, akin to OS. kin, G kinn, Icel. kinn, cheek, Dan. & Sw. kind, L. gena, Gr. �; cf. Skr. hanu. √232.] 1. The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; ...

3243

Chin cough

Chin″ cough″ (?). [For chink cough; cf. As. cincung long laughter, Scot. kink a violent fit of coughing, akin to MHG. kīchen to pant. Cf. Kinknaust, Cough.] Whooping cough.

3244

China

Chi″na (?), n. 1. A country in Eastern Asia.2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.China aster(Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant....

3245

Chinaldine

Chin‐al″dine (?), n. [NL. chinium quinine + aldehyde.] (Chem.) See Quinaldine.

3246

Chinaman

Chi″na‐man (?), n.; pl.Chinamen (�). A native of China; a Chinese.

3247

Chincapin

Chin″ca‐pin (?), n. See Chinquapin.

3248

Chinch

Chinch (?), n. [Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex.] 1. (Zoöl.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).2. (Zoöl.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructiv...

3249

Chincha

Chin″cha (?), n. [Cf. Chinchilla.] (Zoöl.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.

3250

Chinche

Chinche (?), a. [F. chiche miserly.] Parsimonious; niggardly. Chaucer.

3251

Chincherie

Chinch″er‐ie (?), n. Penuriousness.By cause of his skarsete and chincherie.Caucer.

3252

Chinchilla

Chin‐chil″la (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color...

3253

Chinchona

{ Chin‐cho″na (?), Chin‐co″na (?). }See Cinchona.

3254

Chine

Chine (?), n. [Cf. Chink.] A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. “The cottage in a chi...

3255

Chine (2)

Chine (?), n. [OF. eschine, F. échine, fr. OHG. skina needle, prickle, shin, G. schiene splint, schienbein shin. For the meaning cf. L. spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backb...

3256

Chine (3)

Chine, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Chined (?).] 1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.2. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

3257

Chined

Chined (?), a. 1. Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; — used in composition. Beau. & Fl.2. Broken in the back.He's chined, goodman.Beau. & Fl.

3258

Chinese

Chi″nese″ (?), a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. — Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. I...

3259

Chinese (2)

Chi‐nese″, n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.2. sing. The language of China, which is...

3260

Chinese Exclusion Act

Chinese Exclusion Act. Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1...

3261

Chink

Chink (chĭṉk), n. [OE. chine, AS. cīne fissure, chink, fr. cīnan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater lengt...

3262

Chink (2)

Chink, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Chinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Chinking.] To crack; to open.

3263

Chink (3)

Chink, v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

3264

Chink (4)

Chink, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.] 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. “Chink of bell.” Cowper.2. Money; cash. “To leave his ...

3265

Chink (5)

Chink, v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.

3266

Chink (6)

Chink, v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.

3267

Chinky

Chink″y (?), a. Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.