Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CHINE – CHI-RAG'RA
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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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- A chip; a piece cut off or separated by a cutting or engraving instrument; a fragment.
- 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.