Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 51
Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author. -- Burke.
Chimera (n.) (Greek mythology) Fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon [syn: Chimera, Chimaera].
Chimera (n.) A grotesque product of the imagination [syn: chimera, chimaera].
Chimera, () A modular, X Window System-based web browser for Unix. Chimera uses the Athena widget set so Motif is not needed. It supports forms, inline images, TERM, SOCKS, proxy servers, Gopher, FTP, HTTP and local file accesses. Chimera can be extended using external programs. New protocols can easily be added and alternate image formats can be used for inline images (e.g. PostScript).
Version 1.60 is available for Chimera runs on Sun SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5, Linux 1.1.x. It should run on anything with X11R[3-6], imake and a C compiler.
(1994-11-08)
Chimere (n.) The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. -- Hook.
Chimeric (a.) Chimerical.
Chimeric (a.) Being or relating to
or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a
practical improvement on what already exists" -- Douglas Bush [syn:
chimeric, chimerical, chimeral].
Chimerical (a.) Merely imaginary;
fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having,
no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Syn: Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
Chimerical (a.) Being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush [syn: chimeric, chimerical, chimeral].
Chimerical (a.) Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists" -- Douglas Bush.
Chimerically (adv.) Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
Chiminage (n.) (Old Law) A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] -- Cowell.
Chimneys (n. pl. ) of Chimney.
Chimney (n.) A fireplace or hearth. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
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.
Hard by a cottage chimney smokes. -- Milton.
Chimney (n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
Chimney (n.) (Min.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. -- Raymond.
Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard.
Chimney cap, A device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward.
Chimney corner, The space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside.
Chimney hook, A hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire,
Chimney money, Hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney.
Chimney pot (Arch.), A cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof.
Chimney swallow. (Zool.) (a) An American swift ({Ch[ae]ture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys.
Chimney swallow. (Zool.) (b) In England, the common swallow ({Hirundo rustica).
Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.
Chimney (n.) [ C ] (Pipe) (B2) 煙囪；煙道 A hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building to escape to the air outside.
// Factory chimneys belched dense white smoke into the sky.
Chimney (n.) [ C ] (Passage) (Specialized) (Geology) （可容一人攀登的） 岩石狹縫，一線天 A narrow vertical passage in the rock of a cliff or mountain, through which a person can climb.
Chimney-breast (n.) (Arch.) 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
Chimney-piece (n.) (Arch.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace ; also, the shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; mantlepiece. [Chiefly Brit.]
Syn: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece.
Chimpanzee (n.) (Zool.) 【動】黑猩猩 An african ape ({Pan troglodytes, formerly Anthropithecus troglodytes, or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. It is the most intelligent of non-human animals, and when full grown, it is from three to four feet high. A variant called the pygmy chimpanzee, or bonobo, has been recently recognized as a separate species.
Chimpanzee (n.) Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests [syn: chimpanzee, chimp, Pan troglodytes].
Chin (n.) The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
Chin (n.) (Zool.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.
Chin (n.) The protruding part of the lower jaw [syn: chin, mentum].
Chin (n.) Kamarupan languages spoken in western Burma and Bangladesh and easternmost India [syn: Kuki, Chin, Kuki-Chin].
Chin (v.) Raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar [syn: chin, chin up].
Compare: Porcelain
Porcelain (n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. -- Dryden.
Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing.
Porcelain clay. See under Clay.
Porcelain crab (Zool.), Any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanid[ae]). They have a smooth, polished carapace.
Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite.
Porcelain printing, The transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain.
Porcelain shell (Zool.), A cowry.
China (n.) A country in Eastern Asia.
China (n.) China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.
China aster (Bot.), A well-known garden flower and plant.
See Aster.
China bean. See under Bean, 1.
China clay See Kaolin.
China grass, Same as Ramie.
China ink. See India ink.
China pink (Bot.), An anual or biennial species of Dianthus+({Dianthus+Chiensis">Dianthus ({Dianthus Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink.
China root (Med.), The rootstock of a species of Smilax ({Smilax China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum).
China rose. (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species.
China rose. (Bot.) (b) A flowering hothouse plant ({Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies.
China shop, A shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery.
Pride of China, China tree. (Bot.) See Azedarach.
China (n.) A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world [syn: China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, Cathay].
China (n.) High quality porcelain originally made only in China.
China (n.) A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong [syn: Taiwan, China, Nationalist China, Republic of China].
China (n.) Dishware made of high quality porcelain [syn: chinaware, china].
Quinaldine (n.) (Chem.) A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline. [Written also chinaldine.]
Chinaldine (n.) (Chem.) See Quinaldine.
Chinamen (n. pl. ) of Chinaman.
Chinaman (n.) A native of China; a Chinese.
Chincapin (n.) See Chinquapin.
Chinquapin (n.) (Bot.) 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. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.]
Chinquapin+oak,+A+small+shrubby+oak+({Quercus+prinoides">Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak ({Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns.
Western Chinquapin, An evergreen shrub or tree ({Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.
Chincapin (n.) Small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut [syn: chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin].
Chinch (n.) (Zool.) The bedbug ({Cimex lectularius).
Chinch (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Chinch (n.) Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood [syn: bedbug, bed bug, chinch,
Cimex lectularius].
Chincha (n.) (Zool.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
Chinche (a.) Parsimonious; niggardly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Chincherie (n.) Penuriousness. [Obs.]
By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. -- Caucer.
Chinchilla (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Chinchilla (n.) The expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla.
Chinchilla (n.) A thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton.
Chinchilla (n.) Small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur [syn: chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger].
Chinchona () Alt. of Chincona.
Chincona () See Cinchona.
Chinchona, Chincona, () Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona. Same as Cinchona.
Chinchona (n.) Any of several trees of the genus Cinchona [syn: cinchona, chinchona].
Chin cough () Whooping cough.
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..
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. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." -- J. Ingelow.
Chine (n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." -- Dryden.
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.
Chine (n.) Cut of meat or fish including at least part of the
backbone.
Chine (n.) Backbone of an animal.
Chine (v.) Cut through the backbone of an animal.
Chined (a.) Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. -- Beau. & Fl.
Chined (a.) Broken in the back. [Obs.]
He's chined, goodman. -- Beau. & Fl.
Chinese (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 Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis.
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.) sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
Chinese (a.) Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food".
Chinese (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan].
Chinese (n.) Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system.
Chinese (n.) A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China.
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 of bell." -- Cowper.
Chink (n.) Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." -- Somerville.
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. -- Pope.
Chink (v. i.) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. -- Arbuthnot.
Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star. -- Macaulay.
Chink (n.) [From chinaman.] A chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive. [slang]
Chink (n.) (Ethnic slur) Offensive term for a person of Chinese descent [syn: chink, Chinaman].
Chink (n.) A narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall.
Chink (n.) A short light metallic sound [syn: chink, click, clink].
Chink (v.) Make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle, tink, clink, chink].
Chink (v.) Fill the chinks of, as with caulking.
Chink (v.) Make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [syn: check, chink].
Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. -- Dryden.
Chinned (a.) Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.
Quinoidine (n.) (Med. Chem.) A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids. [Written also chinoidine.]
Chinoidine (n.) (Chem.) See Quinodine.
Quinoline (n.) (Chem.) A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type. [Written also chinoline.]
Chinoline (n.) (Chem.) See Quinoline.
Quinone (n.) (Chem.) A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type. [Written also chinone, kinone.]
Chinone (n.) (Chem.) See Quinone.
Chinook (n.) (Ethnol.) 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.
Chinook (n.) A warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies [syn: chinook, chinook wind, snow eater].
Chinook (n.) A member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes
Chinook (n.) Pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon [syn: Chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon].
Chinook (n.) A Penutian language spoken by the Chinook [syn: Chinookan, Chinook].
Chinook (n.) Large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning [syn: chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha].
Chinook, MT -- U.S. city in Montana
Population (2000): 1386
Housing Units (2000): 732
Land area (2000): 0.514623 sq. miles (1.332868 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.514623 sq. miles (1.332868 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14575
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.589432 N, 109.232126 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 59523
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chinook, MT
Chinook
Chinook, WA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Washington
Population (2000): 457
Housing Units (2000): 263
Land area (2000): 1.022784 sq. miles (2.648997 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.022784 sq. miles (2.648997 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12315
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 46.272122 N, 123.946037 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Chinook, WA
Chinook
Chinquapin (n.) (Bot.) 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. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.]
Chinquapin+oak,+A+small+shrubby+oak+({Quercus+prinoides">Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak ({Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns.
Western Chinquapin, An evergreen shrub or tree ({Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.
Chinquapin (n.) Shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States [syn: Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin, chinquapin, Castanea ozarkensis].
Chinquapin (n.) Shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts [syn: Allegheny chinkapin, eastern chinquapin, chinquapin, dwarf chestnut, Castanea pumila].
Chinquapin (n.) Small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut [syn: chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin].
Chinsed (imp. & p. p.) of Chinse.
Chinsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chinse.
Chinse (v. t. & i.) (Naut.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
Chinsing iron, A light calking iron.
Chintzes (n. pl. ) of Chintz.
Chintz (n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. --Swift.
Chintz (n.) A brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric.
Chin-wag, Chin-wagging (n.) A light informal conversation for social occasions.
Syn: chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, tittle-tattle, chin-wag, causerie.
Chinwag (n.) [ C ] (Informal) （朋友間的）閒談，閒聊，聊天 A long and pleasant conversation between friends.
// We had a good chinwag over a bottle of wine.
Chioppine (n.) Same as Chopine, n.
Chopine (n.) A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.]
Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. -- Shak.
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.) (Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo.
Chip ax, A small ax for chipping timber into shape.
Chip bonnet, Chip hat, A bonnet or a hat made of Chip.
See Chip, n., 3.
A chip off the old block, A child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] -- Milton.
Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp.
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. -- Shak.
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.
To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]
Chip (n.) A small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, chip, flake, fleck, scrap].
Chip (n.) A triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line.
Chip (n.) A piece of dried bovine dung [syn: chip, cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip].
Chip (n.) A thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: chip, crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip].
Chip (n.) A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something [syn: check, chip].
Chip (n.) A small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling [syn: chip, poker chip].
Chip (n.) Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit [syn: chip, microchip, micro chip, silicon chip, microprocessor chip].
Chip (n.) (Golf) A low running approach shot [syn: chip, chip shot].
Chip (n.) The act of chipping something [syn: chip, chipping, splintering].
Chip (v.) Break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped" [syn: chip, chip off, come off, break away, break off].
Chip (v.) Cut a nick into [syn: nick, chip].
Chip (v.) Play a chip shot.
Chip (v.) Form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone".
Chip (v.) Break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" [syn: chip, knap, cut off, break off].
CHIP, () An early system on the IBM 1130.
[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. (2004-09-14)
CHIP, () Constraint Handling In Prolog.
Integrated circuit
Chip
Silicon chip
(IC, or "chip") A microelectronic semiconductor device consisting of many interconnected transistors and other components. ICs are constructed ("fabricated") on a small rectangle (a "die") cut from a Silicon (or for special applications, Sapphire) wafer. This is known as the "substrate". Different areas of the substrate are "doped" with other elements to make them either "p-type" or "n-type" and polysilicon or aluminium tracks are etched in one to three layers deposited over the surface. The die is then connected into a package using gold wires which are welded to "pads", usually found around the edge of the die.
Integrated circuits can be classified into analogue, digital and hybrid (both analogue and digital on the same chip).
Digital integrated circuits can contain anything from one to millions of logic gates - inverters, AND, OR, NAND and NOR gates, flip-flops, multiplexors etc. on a few square millimeters. The small size of these circuits allows high speed, low power dissipation, and reduced manufacturing cost compared with board-level integration.
The first integrated circuits contained only a few transistors.++Small+Scale+Integration+({SSI">transistors. Small Scale Integration ({SSI) brought circuits containing transistors numbered in the tens. Later, Medium Scale Integration ({MSI) contained hundreds of transistors. Further development lead to Large Scale Integration ({LSI) (thousands), and VLSI (hundreds of thousands and beyond). In 1986 the first one megabyte RAM was introduced which contained more than one million transistors.
LSI circuits began to be produced in large quantities around 1970 for computer main memories and pocket calculators. For the first time it became possible to fabricate a CPU or even an entire microprocesor on a single integrated circuit. The most extreme technique is wafer-scale integration which uses whole uncut wafers as components.
[Where and when was the term "chip" introduced?]
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Chipmunk (n.) (Zool.) 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. [Written also chipmonk,
chipmuck, and chipmuk.]
Chipmunk (n.) A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body.
Chipper (v. i.) To chirp or chirrup. [Prov. Eng.] -- Forby.
Chipper (a.) Lively; cheerful; talkative. [U. S.]
Chipper (a.) Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit" –F rances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair" -- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty].
Chippeways (n. pl. sing) (Ethnol.) 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 (n.) The act of chipping something [syn: chip, chipping, splintering].
Chippy, (n.) (Zool.) A small American sparrow ({Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
Chipping bird () (Zool.) The chippy.
Chipping squirrel () See Chipmunk.
Chipmunk (n.) [Indian name.] (Zool.) 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. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]
Compare: Sparrow
Sparrow (n.) (Zool.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe ({Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.
Note: The following American species are well known; the chipping sparrow, or chippy, the sage sparrow, the savanna sparrow, the song sparrow, the tree sparrow, and the white-throated sparrow (see Peabody bird). See these terms under Sage, Savanna, etc.
Sparrow (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge.
He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age! -- Shak.
Field sparrow, Fox sparrow, etc. See under Field, Fox, etc.
Sparrow bill, A small nail; a castiron shoe nail; a sparable.
Sparrow hawk. (Zool.) (a) A small European hawk ({Accipiter nisus) or any of the allied species.
Sparrow hawk. (Zool.) (b) A small American falcon ({Falco sparverius).
Sparrow hawk. (Zool.) (c) The Australian collared sparrow hawk ({Accipiter torquatus).
Note: The name is applied to other small hawks, as the European kestrel and the New Zealand quail hawk.
Sparrow+owl+(Zool.),+A+small+owl+({Glaucidium+passerinum">Sparrow owl (Zool.), a small owl ({Glaucidium passerinum) found both in the Old World and the New. The name is also applied to other species of small owls.
Sparrow spear (Zool.), The female of the reed bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
Chippy (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
Chippy (n.) (Zool.) A small American sparrow ({Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
Chips (n.) (Naut.) A ship's carpenter. [Cant.]
Chips (n.) Strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips].
Chiragra (n.) (Med.) Gout in the hand.
Chiragrical (a.) Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease. -- Sir. T. Browne.
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. [Obs.]
All full of chirkyng was that sorry place. -- Cheucer.
Chirk (v. i.) To chirp like a bird. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Chirk (v. t.) To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up. [Colloq. New Eng.]