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CHIRUR'GIC, or Cuirurgical, adj. Having qua¬ 
lities ufeful in outward applications to hurts. Relating 
to the manual part of healing. Manual in general, con- 
fifting in operations of the 1 hand. This lenfe, though 
the firft according to etymology, is now fcarcely found.— 
The chirurgical or manual part doth refer to the making 
inftrumenfs, and exerciiing particular experiments. Will. 
CHI'RY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrid of 
Noyon: three mile? fouth-fouth-weft of Noyon. 
CHI'SEL, f. [cifcau , Fr. of fciffum, Lat.] An inftru- 
ment with which wood or Hone is cut or pared away.— 
What fine chi/el could ever yet cut breath? 
Imperfeft fhapes : in marble fuch are feen, 
When the rude chifel does the man begin. Dryden. 
*To CHI'SEL, v. a. To cut with a chifel. 
CHIS'ME, or Cisme, a feaport town of Afiatic Tur¬ 
key, on the weft coalt of Natolia, oppoiite the itlaiid of 
Scio, between which and the continent is a narrow ftrait; 
where the Turkifh fleet was deftroyed by the Ruffians, in 
1770, The ancient name of this town was Cyflus. I11 
the year 191 before Chrift, the fleet of Antiochus, fur- 
named the Great, was defeated near this town by the 
Roman fleet, under the command of C. Livius, with the 
lofs of thirty (hips taken, and ten funk in the engage¬ 
ment: forty miles weft of Smyrna. Lat. 38. 24.. N. Ion. 
44.2. E. Ferro. 
CHISO'IN, or Cisoing, a town of Flanders, with an 
abby, where Louis XV. took up his refidence during the 
campaign of 1744: two leagues north-north-weft from 
Orchies. 
• CHI'SON, Kison, or Kisson, (judges iv. and v.), a 
river of Gallilee ; Laid to rife in mount Tabor, to run by 
the town of Naim, and to fall into the Mediterranean 
between mount Carmel and Ptolemais, 1 Kings xviii. 40. 
CHISS A'MO, a toum of the ifland of Candia, fituated 
®n the north fide of the ifland, in a bay to which it gives 
name : twenty-five miles weft of Canea. 
CHIT, J'. [according to Dr. Hickes, from kind, Germ, 
child; perhaps from chico, little, Span.] A child; a baby. 
Generally ufed of young perlons in contempt. The 
flioot of com from the end of the grain. A cant term 
with lfialtfters.—Barley, couched four days, will begin to 
fliew the chit or fprit at the root-end. Mortimer. —A 
freckle, [from cbick-peafe.~\ In this fenfe it is feldom ufed. 
To CHIT, v. n. To fprout; to flioot at the end of the 
grain: cant.—I have known barley chit in feven hours 
after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer. 
CHIT'CHAT, f. [corrupted by reduplication from 
chat.~\ Prattle; idle prate; idle talk. A word only ufed 
in ludicrous converfation.—I am a member of a female 
fociety, who call ourfelves the chitchat club. Addifon. 
CHI'TIM, according to Le Clerc, Calmet, and others, 
was the fame with Macedonia, peopled by Kittim the foil 
of Javan, and grandlon of Noah. 
CHI' TON, f. in zoology, a genus of the order of ver¬ 
mes teftacese, or ftiell-fifh. The name chiton is from 
lorica, a coat of mail. The fliell is plated, and confifts 
of many parts lying upon each other tranfverfely. They 
are common on the (bores of Scarborough, Aberdeen, 
and Lochbroom., Of this genus there are twenty-eight 
fpecies. See Conchology. 
CHITPOU'R, or Chittjpur, a town of Hindooftan, 
in the country of Guzerat, celebrated for its manufac¬ 
ture of chintzes: 172 miles louth-weft of Amedabad. 
Lat. 23.45. N. Ion. 73. 3. E. Ferro. 
CHI'TRO, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Macedonia: thirty-fix miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Edelfa, 
CHITTELDROOG', a town of Hindooftan, in the 
Myfore country. Here is a fort, iinmenlely ftrong, feated 
on a ftupendous rock, faid to be two thou (and fix hun¬ 
dred and forty yards high. I11 it were confined the crew 
of the Hannibal, taken by the French admiral Suftrein, 
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in Auguft 1782; who, contrary to every law of war and 
of humanity, were deliyered over to Hyder Aii, to fall a 
facrifice to his fiavage refentment againlt the Englifli. It 
was taken, with infinite difficulty, by a detachment from 
the marquis Cornwallis’s army, in 1792 : eigbty-five raiies 
north-north-weft of Seringapatam, and ninety-five eaft 
- of Bedanore. 
CHIT'FENDEN, a county in Vermont, near lake 
Champlain, between Franklin county 011 the north, and 
Addifon foutli; LaMoille river pafl’es through its north- 
weft corner, and Onion river divides it nearly in the cen¬ 
ter. Its chiet town is Burlington. This county con¬ 
tained, by the cenfus of 1791, forty-four townlhips, and 
7301 inhabitants. Since that time the northern counties 
have been taken from it, fo that neither its (ize or num¬ 
ber of inhabitants can now’ be afeertained. 
CHITTENDEN, a town of the American States in 
Rutland county, Vermont. The road over the mountain 
pafles through this townfliip. It lies feven miles eaft from 
the fort on Otter creek, in Pittsford, and about fixty north 
by eaft from Bennington. 
. CHITTEPUT', a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna¬ 
tic : fourteen miles north of Gingee. 
CHI I TERLINGS, J. ’without fmgular. [from febyter 
lingh, Dut. Minjliew, from kutteln, Germ. Skinner.\ The 
inteltines or bowels. 
CHITTIGO'NG, a diftrid of Hindooftan, in the coun¬ 
try of Bengal, between the Burrampooter river, and the 
country of Rodman and Aracan, where the Portuguese 
made the firft fettlement. The capital is Iflamabad. 
CHITTOOR', a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic: 
twenty-eight miles north-welt of Arcot, and (eventy weft 
of Madras. 
CHITTR A', a town of Hindooftan, in the Bahar coun¬ 
try : eighty-five miles Couth of Patna, and leventy-two 
fouth-fouth-weft of Bahar. 
CHIT'TY, adj. Childifli; like a baby. 
CHI'VA, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencias 
fifteen miles welt-north-welt from Valencia. 
CHI'VALROUS, adj. Relating to chivalry, or errant 
knighthood ; knightly ; warlike, 5 adventurous; daring, 
A word no w out of ufe: 
And noble minds of yore allied were 
In brave purluit of chivalrous emprife. Spenfer, 
CHI'VALRY, f. [ chevalerie , Fr. knighthood, from* 
cheval, aborfe; as eques in Latin.] Knighthood; a mi¬ 
litary dignity.—There be now, for martial encourage¬ 
ment, fonie degrees and orders of chivalry ;, which, ne-- 
verthelefs, are conferred promilcuoully upon foldiers and- 
no foldiers. Bacon. —The qualifications of a knight; as, 
valour, dexterity in arms : 
Thou haft (lain 
The flow’r of Europe for his chivalry. Shakefpeare 
The general fyftem of knighthood : 
Solemnly he fwore, 
That, by the faith which knights to knighthood bore. 
And wliate’er elfe to chivalry belongs, 
He would not ceale till lie reveng’d their wrongs. Dryd , 
An adventure; an exploit. Not now in ufe. —They four 
doing ads more dangerous, though lefs famous,-becaule 
they were but private chivalries. Sidney. —The body or 
order of knights: 
And by his light 
Did all the chivalry of England move 
To do brave ads. Shakefpeare. 
The age to which we muft look for the origin of chivalry, 
as'a fyftem or order of knighthood, was lingUlarly rude 
and illiterate. Even the principal events of that period, 
emigrations, wars, and the eftabliflnnent of fyftems of 
laws and forms of government, hpve been but imperfect¬ 
ly, and in many inftances unfaithfully, recorded. But 
