Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHINE, v.t.

To cut through the back-bone, or into chine-pieces.

CHIN'ED, a.

Pertaining to the back. – Beaum.

CHI-NESE', a.

Pertaining to China.

CHI-NESE', n. [sing. and plur.]

A native of China; also, the language of China.

CHIN'GLE, n.

Gravel free from dirt. [See Shingle.] – Donne.

CHINK, n. [This word may be a derivative from the Saxon cinan, or ginian, geonan, to gape, to yawn; Gr. χαινω; or from the common root of these words. Sax. cina, or cinu, a fissure.]

A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.

CHINK, v.i.¹

To crack; to open. – Barret.

CHINK, v.i.²

To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies. – Arbuthnot.

CHINK, v.t.¹

To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK, v.t.² [see Jingle.]

To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money. – Pope.

CHINK'A-PIN, n.

The dwarf chestnut, Castanea pumila, a tree that rises eight or ten feet, with a branching shrubby stem, producing a nut.

CHINK'Y, a.

Full of chinks, or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. – Dryden.

CHIN'NED, a.

Having a long chin. – Kersey.

CHINSE, v.t.

In naval affairs, to thrust oakum into the seams or chinks of a ship with a chisel or point of a knife, as a temporary expedient for calking. – Mar. Dict.

CHINTZ, n. [D. chits; G. zitz; Sans. cheet; Hindoo, cheent; Per. chinz, spotted, stained.]

Cotton cloth, printed with more than two colors.

CHIOP-PINE', n. [Sp. chapin; Port. chapim. It is said to be of Arabian origin. It can not be the L. crepis, Gr. κρηπις, unless a letter has been lost.]

A high shoe, formerly worn by Indies. – Shak.

CHIP, or CHEAP, n. [or CHIP'PING.]

Ιn the names of places, imply a market; from Sax. ceapan, cypan, to buy or sell. [See Cheap.]

CHIP, n. [From the root of chop. Fr. coupeau.]

1. A piece of wood or other substance, separated from a body by a cutting instrument, particularly by an ax. It is used also for a piece of stone separated by a chisel or other instrument, in hewing.
2. A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

CHIP, v.i.

To break or fly off in small pieces, as in potter's ware.

CHIP, v.t.

To cut into small pieces, or chips; to diminish by cutting away a little at a time, or in small pieces; to hew. – Shak.

CHIP'-AX, n.

An ax for chipping.

CHIP'PED, pp.

Cut in chips, or small pieces; hewed.

CHIP'PING, n.

1. A chip; a piece cut off or separated by a cutting or engraving instrument; a fragment.
2. The flying or breaking off in small pieces, of the edges of potter's ware, and porcelain. – Encyc.

CHIP'PING, ppr.

Cutting off in small pieces.

CHI-RAG'RA, n.

Gout in the hand.