chink 
H. trans. To cause to emit a sharp, clear 
metallic sound, as by shaking coins together. 
He chink* his purse and takes his seat of state. 
Pope, Dunciad, ii. 197. 
chink 2 (chingk), n. [< chink 2 , v.~\ 1. A short, 
sharp, clear metallic sound. 
Half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field 
ring with their importunate chink. Burke, Rev. in France. 
The chink of the dropt hall-penny no more consoles 
their forlorn bereavement. Lamb, Decay of Beggars. 
2. Coin: so called from its metallic ring. [Vul- 
gar.] 
The keeping of an inn : 
Where every jovial tinker, for his chink, 
May cry, Mine host ! B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. 
chink 8 (chingk), n. [Prop, imitative, like the 
equiv. fink, finch, spink. Cf. c/Wfc 2 .] 1. The 
chaffinch, fringilla coslebs. [Prov. Eng.] 2. 
The reed-bunting, Emberiza schcenicwlus. 
chink 't (chingk), n. [ Assibilated form of kink 2 , 
q. v. Cf. chin-cough.] A. fit, as of coughing or 
laughing. 
Here my lord and lady took such a chink of laughing 
that it was some time before they could recover. 
Brooke, Fool of Quality, i. 35. 
His [the rector's] kind face was all agape with broad 
smiles, and the boys around him were in chinks of laugh- 
ing. Mrs. Oaskell, Cranford, ix. 
chink 5 +, n. [A var., perhaps a misprint, of 
chinch 2 ."] An obsolete form of chinch 2 . 
Theod. I thank you, hostess. 
Pray you, will you shew me in ? 
Hostess. Yes, marry, will I, sir ; 
And pray that not a flea or a chink vex you. 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Pilgrimage, i. 1. 
chinka (ching'ka), . [E. Ind.] A suspension- 
bridge with a single cable, often made of stout 
grass, used in the East Indies. From the cable 
a moving seat, shaped like an ox-yoke, is slung 
for the passenger. 
chinkapin, chincapin (ching'ka-pin), n. [Also 
chinquapin, and formerly chincomen, ehechinqua- 
men (F. chincapin, ehinquapine) ; of Amer. Ind. 
origin.] 1. The dwarf chestnut of the United 
States, Castanea pumila, a shrub or tree, rang- 
ing from Pennsylvania to Texas, and bearing a 
nut similar to that of the chestnut, but smaller 
and solitary in the bur. 
They [the Virginians] have . . . many goodly groves of 
Chincomen trees, that have husks like a chestnut, and are 
good meat either raw or boiled. 
S. Clarke, Plantations of the English in America (1670), 
[p. 12. 
2. On the Pacific coast of the United States, 
the Castanopsis chrysophylla, a tree or shrub 
of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains. 
This is more nearly allied to the oak than to the chestnut, 
though the small nut, whicii is not edible and does not 
mature till the second year, is inclosed in a similar spiny 
bur. See mater-chinkapin. 
3. The nut of Castanea pumila. 
Of their Chesnuts and Chechinquamens boyled 4 houres, 
they make broath and bread for their chiefe men. 
Capt. John Smith, Works (ed. Arber), p. 68. 
Chinkapins have a taste something like a chestnut, and 
grow in a husk or bur, being of the same sort of sub- 
stance, but not so big as an acorn. They grow upon large 
bushes, some about as high as the common apple trees in 
England, and either in the high or low, but always bar- 
ren ground. Beverley, Virginia, ii. H 14. 
chink-bug (chingk'bug), re. A corrupt form of 
chinch-bug. 
chinkerst (ching'kerz), n.pl. [< chink 2 + -er 1 + 
a 1 . Cf. chink 2 , n., 2.] Coins ; money. [Slang.] 
Are men like us to be entrapped and sold 
And see no money down, Sir Hurly-Burly ? . . . 
So let us see your chinkers. 
Sir H. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, II., iii. 1. 
chinking (ching'king), n. [Verbal n. of chink*, 
v.~\ 1. The process of filling the interstices 
between the logs of log houses preparatory to 
plastering them over with clay. The double 
process is known as chinking and daubing. 2. 
The material used for filling chinks. 
The interstices of the log wall were " chinked," the 
chinking being large chips and small slabs . . . and the 
daubing yellow clay. Carlton, The New Purchase, I. 61. 
chinky (ching'ki), a. [< chink 1 + -yl.~\ Full 
of chinks or fissures ; gaping; opening in clefts 
or crevices. 
Plaister thou the chinky hives with clay. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 63. 
chinned (chind), a. [< chin + -erf2.] Having a 
chin of the kind specified : as, double-cWrened 
Like a faire yong prince, 
First downe chinned. Chapman, Iliad, xxiv. 307. 
chinoidine (ki-noi'din), n. [< NL. china, var. of 
quina (see quinine), + -aid + -ine 2 .] An amor- 
phous dark-brown brittle substance, obtained 
in the manufacture of quinine by precipitating 
the brown mother-liquors with ammonia, and 
consisting chiefly of the remaining amorphous 
alkaloids. It is used as a substitute for quinine. 
964 
chinoline (kin'o-lin), n. [< NL. china, quinine 
(see quinine), -f- -ol + -iwe 2 .] An artificial al- 
kaloid, CgHyN, which is obtained by distilling 
quinine or cmchonine with potash, or syntheti- 
cally from aniline and nitrobenzene by treat- 
ment with sulphuric acid and glycerin, it is 
a colorless liquid with a penetrating odor, is a powerful 
antiseptic, and has been used in medicine as an antipe- 
riodic in intermittent fevers. Also spelled quinoline. 
Chinook (chi-nuk' ),. [Amer. Ind.] 1. A jar- 
gon of Indian, French, and English used as a 
means of communication with the native tribes 
in British America, and now extensively em- 
ployed, especially on the northwestern Pacific 
coast, not only between the whites and the 
Indians, but also between the Indians of tribes 
having different languages. It is similar in char- 
acter to "Pidgin English," being made of native and for- 
eign words grossly corrupted and often fancifully used. 
For example, the Chinook name for a male " Indian " is 
siwaxh, from the French sauvage; an Englishman is a 
King George man; a Boston man is a person from the Unit- 
ed States ; and clouds are smock (English smoke). 
All words in Chinook are very much aspirated, guttu- 
ralized, sputtered, and swallowed. 
T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle. 
2. [I. c.] A name given in the extreme north- 
western part of the United States to a warm, 
dry westerly or northerly wind which is felt at 
intervals, especially on the eastern slopes of the 
mountains. In the winter and early spring it causes a 
very rapid disappearance of the snow. It is similar to the 
foehn of Switzerland. See/oeAn. 
When we reached Spokan Falls we heard the line was 
breached in sixty or eighty places ; a chinook or warm 
wind had produced a thaw, and the floods had washed out 
the line. W. Shepherd, Prairie Experiences, p. 116. 
chin-piece (chin'pes), n. Same as chin-band, (b). 
chinquapin, n. See chinkapin. 
chinquis (chin'kwis), n. [Native name.] A 
name of the peacock-pheasant of the East 
Indies, Potyplectron bicalcaratum, having two 
spurs on each tarsus, and beautiful ocelli on the 
feathers of the back and tail. See Polyplectron. 
chin-scab (chin'skab), n. A disease in sheep, 
called by shepherds dartars. 
chinse (chins), v. t. ; pret. and pp. chinsed, ppr. 
chinsing. [Appar. for 'chinch, < ME. "chinchen 
(which appears in chinching-iron for chinsing- 
iron); an assibilated form of chink*, v., 2.] 
Naut., to calk temporarily, as the seams of a 
ship, by forcing in the oakum with a chisel or 
the point of a knife. 
The ends and edges are chinsed or lightly caulked. 
Thearle, Naval Architecture, 230. 
chinsing-iron (chin 'sing -I "em), n. [Earlier 
chinching-iron, ME. chynchynge-yron ; < 'chinch- 
ing, chinsing, verbal n. of "chinch, chinse, + 
iron.] An edged tool or chisel used to chinse 
the seams of a vessel. 
chin-strap (chin'strap), n. Insaddlery, a strap 
connecting the throat-strap and nose-band of 
a halter. E. H. Knight. 
chintt, An obsolete form of chintz 1 . 
chintz 1 , chints (chints), n. [Formerly also 
chint, < Hind, chhint, chintz, also chhit = Bene. 
chhit, chintz, a spot (cerebral t), > D. sits, G. 
zitz, chintz; cf. Hind, chitra, spotted, also 
chintz, < Skt. chitra, spotted, variegated, bright, 
< / chit, perceive, look at. Cf. chetali.~] Cot- 
ton cloth printed with flowers or other patterns 
in different colors, and now generally glazed. 
Its production was formerly confined to the East Indies, 
but it is now largely manufactured in Europe, especially 
in Great Britain, where the glazed kind is also frequently 
called furniture-print, from its extensive use in covering 
furniture, etc. 
Let a charming chintz and Brussels lace 
Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face. 
Pope, Moral Essays, i. 248. 
Chintz braid, a cotton galloon printed with a small pat- 
tern in colors. Cnlntz style. Same as madder style 
(which see, under madder). 
chintz 2 (chints), n. A corruption of chinch 2 . 
chin-whelk, Chin-welk (chin'hwelk, -welk), n. 
Same as sycosis. 
Chiococca (M-o-kok'a), n. [NL., prop. "Chio- 
nococca (a translation of E. snowberry, q. v.), < 
Gr. ^iv, snow (see chimera), + K&KKOC,, a berry; 
in allusion to the white color of the berries.] 
A genus of tropical plants, natural order Bubia- 
cece, consisting of small, often climbing shrubs, 
natives of America, with funnel-shaped yellow- 
ish flowers. The fruit is a white berry with two seeds. 
The plants possess purgative and emetic properties, and 
the root of C. racemoia, known as cahinca-root, has been 
of repute as a diuretic. 
Banded Hickory-borer 
(China cinctus), natural 
size. 
chiolite (kTo-15t), re. [< Gr. JM&V, snow, + 
stone.] A rare fluoridof aluminium and sodium, 
occurring in snow-white tetragonal crystals 
near Miask, in the government of Ufa, Russia. 
Chion (ki'on), re. [NL., < Gr. ^(civ, snow: see 
chimera, hiemal, ete.] A genus of longicorn 
chip 
beetles, of the group Cerambyci, characterized 
by the rounded cavities of the front coxae, an 
acutely triangular scutel- 
lum, a lateral spine, but no 
dorsal callosities on the tho- 
rax, and elytra and thighs 
spinose at the tip. The single 
North American .spcdcs (.'nn.stitut- 
iiiK this genus, C. cinctus (Drury), 
is very variable in size and col- 
or, but is usually brownish-gray, 
and is covered with short whitish- 
Kray hair, each wing-case having 
an oblique ocher-colored band. 
Sometimes the beetle is uniformly 
brownish-yellow. It is very abun- 
dant in the eastern parts of the 
United States, its larvae tunneling 
in the solid wood of hickory-trees. 
Practical Entomologist, I. 30. 
Chionanthus (ki-o-nan'thus), n. [NL., < Gr. 
Xiuv, snow, + dirfto'r, a flower.] A genus of low 
trees or shrubs, of the natural order Okacece, 
natives of eastern North America and eastern 
Asia. The principal species is C. Virginica, the 
fringe-tree of the United States. See fringe-tree. 
Chionididse (ki-o-nid'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Chio- 
nis (Cliionid-) + -f>.] A remarkable family of 
wading birds, related both to the plovers and 
to the gulls, in some respects near the oyster- 
catchers, and in some systems ranged with the 
lark-plovers, Thinocoridce, in a superfamily Chi- 
onoide<e; the sheathbills. See sheathbill. 
Chioninae (kl-o-m'ne), n. pi. [NL., < CMnnis 
+ -<B.] The only subfamily of the Chionidi- 
da!. a. R. Gray, 1841. 
Chionis (ki-6'nis), n. [NL. (J. R. Forster, 
1788), < Gr. ;c<uv, snow.] The typical genus of 
birds of the family Chionidida:. C. alba inhabits 
the Falklands and some other antarctic islands, is snow- 
white in color, and as large as a small chicken. C. minor 
is a smaller and perfectly distinct species inhabiting Ker- 
guelen island in the Indian ocean. The term is synony- 
mous with Vafjinalis and Coltorhamphu*. See sheathbill. 
Chionoideae (ki-o-uoi'de-e), n. pi. [NL., < Chi- 
onis + -oidece.~\ A superfamily of birds, in 
which the Thinocoridte are included with the 
Chionidida!. 
chionomorph (ki-on'o-mprf), n. One of the 
Chionomorphm ; a sheathbill. 
Chionomorphae (ki-6-no-mor'fe), n. pi. [NL. 
(Coues and Kidder, 1876), < Chionis + Gr. jwp- 
0#, form.] The sheathbills, or Chionidida;, as 
a superfamily of birds. 
chionomorphic (ki-6-no-mor'fik), a. [< Chio- 
nomorpha! + -ie.] Pertaining to or having the 
characters of the Chionomorpha:. 
Chip 1 (chip), 
chipping. . [< 
small pieces ( +, , * 
out, hatch, MD. strike, knock, cut ( > G. kippen, 
clip money), = MLG. kippen, hatch out. = OSw. 
kippa, chop), derived with reg. vowel-change 
from chop 1 ; but the forms and senses are partly 
mixed with those of other verbs : see chopl and 
chipl, .] I. trans. 1. To cut into small pieces 
or chips ; diminish or disfigure by cutting away 
a little at a time or in small pieces ; hack 
away. See chipping. 
Chyppe the breed at ones, for our gestes be come. 
Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), ii. 71. 
There are two doors, and to each a single chipped and 
battered marble step. G. W. Cable, Old Creole Days, p. 3. 
2. In poker, faro, and other games at cards, to 
bet; lay a wager: as, to chip five dollars (that 
is, to stake chips representing five dollars). 
II. intrans. 1. To break or fly off in small 
pieces, as the glazing in pottery. 2. In poker, 
to bet a chip: as, I chip. 3f. To carp; gibe; 
sneer. 
In wordys men weren never so wyce 
As now, to chyppe at wordys of reson. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 36, fol. 33. (HalliweU.) 
To chip in, to put in chips, as into the pool in gambling ; 
hence, to contribute ; supply one's share or part : as, they 
all chipped in to buy it. [Slang.] 
chip 1 (chip), n. [< ME. chip, chippe, chyppe, a 
chip (AS. cyp, cypp, a stock, post (L. stipes), 
occurring in glosses, is a different word, < L. 
cippus: see cippus) ; from the verb.] 1. A small 
fragment of wood, stone, or other substance, 
separated from a body by a blow of an instru- 
ment, particularly a cutting instrument, as an 
ax, an adz, or a chisel. 
Full ofte he heweth up so highe, 
Tat chippes fallen in his eye. 
Gower, Conf. Alnant., 1. 106. 
2. Wood, coarse straw, palm-leaves, or similar 
material split into thin slips and made by weav- 
ing into hats and bonnets. 
The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, 
and chip hats. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
