Part 1866

<h1>Chinese</h1> <Xpage=249>

<hw>Chi*nese"</hw>, <tt>n. sing. & pl.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <singf>sing.</singf> <def>The language of China, which is monosyllabic.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Chineses</i> was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.</note>

<h1>Chink</h1> <Xpage=249>

<hw>Chink</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>chine</ets>, AS. <ets>c\'c6ne</ets> fissure, chink, fr. <ets>c\'c6nan</ets> to gape; akin to Goth. <ets>Keinan</ets> to sprout, G. <ets>keimen</ets>. Cf. <er>Chit</er>.]</ety> <def>A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; <as>as, the <ex>chinks</ex> of wall</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Through one cloudless <b>chink</b>, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Chink</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Chinked</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Chinking</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To crack; to open.</def>

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<hw>Chink</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to open in cracks or fissures.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fill up the chinks of; <as>as, to <ex>chink</ex> a wall</as>.</def>

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<hw>Chink</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Of imitative origin. Cf. <er>Jingle</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.</def> "<i>Chink</i> of bell."

<i>Cowper.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Money; cash.</def> <mark></mark> "To leave his <i>chink</i> to better hands."

<i>Somerville.</i>

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<hw>Chink</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

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<hw>Chink</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.</def>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<h1>Chinky</h1> <Xpage=249>

<hw>Chink"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Chinned</h1> <Xpage=249>

<hw>Chinned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; <as>as, short-<ex>chinned</ex></as>.</def>