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- English Word Chinch Definition The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
- English Word Chinch Definition 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.
- English Word Chincha Definition A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
- English Word Chinche Definition Parsimonious; niggardly.
- English Word Chincherie Definition Penuriousness.
- English Word Chinchilla Definition 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.
- English Word Chinchilla Definition The fur of the chinchilla.
- English Word Chinchilla Definition A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.
- English Word Chinchona Definition Alt. of Chincona
- English Word Chincona Definition See Cinchona.
- English Word Chine Definition 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.
- English Word Chine Definition The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
- English Word Chine Definition A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
- English Word Chine Definition The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- English Word Chine Definition To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- English Word Chine Definition Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
- English Word Chined Definition of Chine
- English Word Chined Definition Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.
- English Word Chined Definition Broken in the back.
- English Word Chinese Definition Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
- English Word Chinese Definition A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
- English Word Chinese Definition The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
- English Word Chink Definition A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
- English Word Chink Definition To crack; to open.
- English Word Chink Definition To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- English Word Chink Definition To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
- English Word Chink Definition A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
- English Word Chink Definition Money; cash.
- English Word Chink Definition To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- English Word Chink Definition To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.