CHI 
The flowers exhale a fweet and pleafant odour. Native 
of the forefts of Guiana. 
Propagation and Culture. The Ipeft way to obtain good 
plants is from the feeds, which mult be procured from 
Ain erica, for they never have produced any fruit in this 
country. The feeds fhould be fown in fmall pots'filled 
with frefli loamy earth loon after they arrive, and fhould 
be placed under, a hot-bed frame, where they may remain 
till the beginning of May, when they mult be removed 
to a fituation expofed to the morning fun, and fcreened 
from the fun in the middle of the day. ' In dry weather 
the pots muft be watered, and kept clean from weeds; 
for, as thefe feeds lie in the ground a whole year before 
the plants will come up, they fhould not be expofed to 
the fun the firft fummer, but the following autumn they 
ihould be removed, and. placed under a frame, to proteCt 
the feeds from being injured by the froft; and, if the 
pots are plunged into a moderate hot-bed the beginning 
of March, it wil 1 bring up the plants much fooner than 
they will otherwile rile; by which means they will get 
more ftrength the firft fummer, and be better able to re¬ 
fill the cold of the next winter. While thefe plants are 
very young, they will be in danger o-f fuffering by fevere 
froft; but when they have obtained ftrength, they will 
refill the greateft cold of our climate in the open air; 
therefore, for the two or three firft winters, it will be 
proper to keep them under fhelter; fo that the young 
plants may remain in the feed-pots all the firft fummer, 
and the following winter; and in the fpring, before they 
begin to fhoot, they fhould be fhaken out of the pots, and 
carefully feparated fo as not to break off their roots, and 
each planted in a fmall pot filled with light loamy foil, 
and plunged into a very moderate hot-bed, juft to for¬ 
ward their taking frefli root; then they fhould be gradu¬ 
ally inured to the open air, and during the following 
fummer the pots fhould be plunged into the ground, to 
prevent the earth from drying, in a fituation where they 
may enjoy the morning fun, but fcreened from the great 
heat of noon. During the fummer feafon, they will re¬ 
quire to be frequently watered, and kept clean from weeds. 
The autumn following they fhould be again placed under 
a hot-bed frame to icreen them from froft; but they 
fhould enjoy the free air at all times, when the weather 
Is mild. The April following the plants may be fhaken 
out of the pots, with the ball of earth to their roots, and 
planted where they are defigned to remain. 
CHI'ONE, a daughter of Daedalion, of whom Apollo 
and Mercury became enamoured. To enjoy her com¬ 
pany, Mercury lulled her to fleep with his caduceus, and 
Apollo, in the night, under the form of an old woman, 
obtained the fame favours as Mercury. From this em¬ 
brace Chione became mother of Philammon and Autoly- 
cus, the former of whom, as being fon of Apollo, be¬ 
came an excellent mufician; and the latter was equally 
notorious for his robberies, of which his father Mercury 
was the patron. Chione grew fo proud of her commerce 
with the gods, that fhe even preferred her beauty to that 
of Juno, for which impiety fhe was killed by the goddeis, 
and changed into a hawk. Ootid. 
CHIOP'PINE,/, [from chapin , Span.] A high fhoe, 
formerly worn by ladies.—Your ladyfhip is nearer hea¬ 
ven than when I faw you lall, by the altitude of a chiop- 
pine. Shakefpeare.. . 
CHIOURLIC', a town of European Turkey, in Ro¬ 
mania, the fee of a Greek bifhop, fituated on a river of 
the fame name: fifty miles north-weft of Conftantinople. 
CHl'OZ, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of San- 
domirz: thirty-fix miles north of Malogocz. 
CHIOZ'ZA, a fmall ifland in the Adriatic, near the 
coaft of Italy, not far from the mouth of the Brenta, with 
a town of the fame name, the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan 
of Venice: the town contains three churches and eight 
monafteries. It is thirteen miles loath of Venice. Lat. 
45.15. N. Ion. 30, E. Ferro. 
Vol. IV, No, 214.. 
CHI sox 
CHIP, CHEAP, CHIP'PING, in the names of places, 
imply a market;. from the Saxon cyppan, ceapan, to 
buy. Gibfott. 
"To CHIP, <v. a. [probably corrupted from chop.'] To 
cut into fmall pieces ; todiminifti by cutting away a little 
at a time.—Tnduftry taught to chip the wood, and hew 
the ft one. Thomfon. 
His mangled myrmidons, 
Nofelefs, liandlefs, hackt and chipt, come to him, 
Crying on HeCtor. Shakefpeare. 
CHIP, f A fmall piece taken off by a cutting inllru- 
ment: 
The ftraw was laid below; 
Of chips and ferewood was the fecond row. Dryden. 
A fmall piece however made.—The manganefe lies in the 
vein in lumps wrecked, in an irregular manner, among 
clay, fpar, and chips of ftone. Woodward. 
CHIP PENHAM, or Chippincham, a borough town 
in the county of Wilts, fituated on the river Avon, over 
which it has a handlbme ftone bridge of fixteen arches ; 
diftant ninety-three meafured miles from London, thir¬ 
teen from Bath, and twenty-two from Briftol. Chippen¬ 
ham is governed by a bailiff and twelve burgeffes; and is 
faid to have been, in the days of Alfred, one of the fineft 
and ftrongeft cities of the kingdom ; the taking of which 
by the Danes, about the year 880, was a principal caufe 
of the memorable retreat of that great and good king. 
The chief trade of the place is the manufacture of fuper- 
fine woollen-cloths. It has four fairs annually; on the 
17th of May, 2zd of June, 29th of OCtober, and nth of 
December. Here is an eftabliflied and very confiderable 
market for corn, &c. on Saturdays. 
CHiP'PING,/. A fragment cut off.—They dung their 
land with the chippings of a fort of foft ftone. Mortimer. 
CHIP'PING, / An operation ufed in the China ma¬ 
nufactory, for which fee Porcelain. 
CHIP'PING NORTON, a borough town in Oxford- 
fliire, with a market on Wednelday for corn, &c. and 
feven annual fairs, viz. March 7th, May 6th, laft Friday 
in May, July 18th, September 4th, November 8th, and 
the laft Friday in November. It is governed by two bai¬ 
liffs and twelve burgeffes. Here is a free grammar-fchqol, 
founded by Edward VI, The church is a noble ftruChire 
in the Gothic tafle, 98 feet long by 87 feet wide, the 
middle aifle 46 feet high, and much noticed for its light 
and curious workmanftiip in the windows. On Chapel- 
heath, near the town, are the Rollrich-ftones, a Stone¬ 
henge in miniature, being a circle of ftones Handing up¬ 
right, fome of them from five to feven feet high, and 
probably the veltigia of an old Britilh temple. The town 
is fituated on the turnpike-road from London to Wor- 
cefter; diftant from London feventy-four miles, and from 
Worcefter thirty-feven. There is a confiderable manu¬ 
factory carried on here for horfe-clothing, tilting, harra- 
teens, See. 
CHIPPIO'NA, a town of Spain, in the country of Se¬ 
ville, fituated on a rock near the coaft of the Atlantic: 
five miles fouth-weftof San Lucar de Barremeda. 
CHIQUI'TOS, a province of South America, in the 
government of Buenos Ayres, inhabited in 1732 by feven . 
Indian nations, each compofed of about 600 families. 
CHl'RAC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lozere, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrid of 
Marvejols: one league louth-weft of Marvejols. 
CHIRA'GRICAL, adj. [from chiragra, Lat.] Having 
the gout in the hand ; fubjeCt to the gout in the hand.— 
Chiragrical perfons do fuffer in the finger as well as in the 
reft, and fometimes firft of all. Brown, . 
CHI'RAS. See Schiras. 
CHI'RENS, a town of France,, in the department 
of the Here, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCl 
of La Tour-du-Pin : five leagues north-north-weft of 
Grenoble. 
«.M 
CHIREZOUR'; 
