Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author.
Chimere (n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.
Chimeric (a.) Chimerical.
Chimerical (a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Chimerically (adv.) Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
Chiminage (n.) A toll for passage through a forest.
Chimneys (pl. ) of Chimney
Chimney (n.) A fireplace or hearth.
Chimney (n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.
Chimney (n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
Chimney (n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
Chimney-breast (n.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
Chimney-piece (n.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace.
Chimpanzee (n.) An african ape (Anthropithecus troglodytes or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.
Chin (n.) The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
Chin (n.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.
China (n.) A country in Eastern Asia.
China (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.
Chinaldine (n.) See Quinaldine.
Chinamen (pl. ) of Chinaman
Chinaman (n.) A native of China; a Chinese.
Chincapin (n.) See Chinquapin.
Chinch (n.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
Chinch (n.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
Chincha (n.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
Chinche (a.) Parsimonious; niggardly.
Chincherie (n.) Penuriousness.
Chinchilla (n.) A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.
Chinchilla (n.) The fur of the chinchilla.
Chinchilla (n.) A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.
Chinchona () Alt. of Chincona
Chincona () See Cinchona.
Chin cough () Whooping cough.
Chine (n.) 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.
Chine (n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
Chine (n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
Chine (n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Chined (imp. & p. p.) of Chine
Chine (v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
Chine (v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Chined (a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.
Chined (a.) Broken in the back.
Chinese (a.) Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Chinese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
Chinese (n. sing. & pl.) The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Chinked (imp. & p. p.) of Chink
Chinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chink
Chink (v. i.) To crack; to open.
Chink (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chink (v. t.) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink (n.) A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink (n.) Money; cash.
Chink (v. t.) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Chinned (a.) Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.
Chinoidine (n.) See Quinodine.
Chinoline (n.) See Quinoline.
Chinone (n.) See Quinone.
Chinook (n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
Chinook (n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
Chinook (n.) A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.
Chinquapin (n.) A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
Chinsed (imp. & p. p.) of Chinse
Chinsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chinse
Chinse (v. t. & i.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
Chintzes (pl. ) of Chintz
Chintz (n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.
Chioppine (n.) Same as Chopine, n.
Chipped (imp. & p. p.) of Chip
Chipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chip
Chip (v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
Chip (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
Chip (v. t.) To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
Chip (v. i.) To break or fly off in small pieces.
Chip (n.) A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
Chip (n.) A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
Chip (n.) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
Chip (n.) Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.
Chip (n.) One of the counters used in poker and other games.
Chip (n.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Chipmunk (n.) A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus.
Chipper (v. i.) To chirp or chirrup.
Chipper (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative.
Chippeways (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.
Chipping (n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
Chipping (n.) The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
Chipping (n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
Chipping bird () The chippy.
Chipping squirrel () See Chipmunk.
Chippy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
Chippy (n.) A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
Chips (n.) A ship's carpenter.
Chiragra (n.) Gout in the hand.
Chiragrical (a.) Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.
Chiretta (n.) A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
Chirk (v. i.) To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.
Chirk (v. i.) To chirp like a bird.
Chirk (v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.