Chinchona
(Chin*cho"na Chin*co"na) See Cinchona.
Chin cough
(Chin" cough") [For chink cough; cf. As. cincung long laughter, Scot. kink a violent fit of
coughing, akin to MHG. kichen to pant. Cf. Kinknaust, Cough.] Whooping cough.
Chine
(Chine) n. [Cf. Chink.] A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the
Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.
Chine
(Chine) n.[OF. eschine, F. échine, fr. OHG. skina needle, prickle, shin, G. schiene splint, schienbein
shin. For the meaning cf. L. spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backbone. Cf. Shin.]
1. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.
2. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
3. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a
stave.
Chine
(Chine), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chined ]
1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
2. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Chined
(Chined) a.
1. Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; — used in composition. Beau. & Fl.
2. Broken in the back. [Obs.]
He's chined, goodman.
Beau. & Fl.
Chinese
(Chi"nese") a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. — Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance
brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus
Sinensis.
Chinese
(Chi*nese"), n. sing. & pl.
1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in
China.
2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
Chink
(Chink) n. [OE. chine, AS. cine fissure, chink, fr. cinan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout,
G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as,
the chinks of a wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
Macaulay.
Chink
(Chink), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.] To crack; to open.
Chink
(Chink), v. t.
