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  • English Word Chipper Definition Lively; cheerful; talkative.
  • English Word Chippeways Definition A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.
  • English Word Chipping Definition of Chip
  • English Word Chipping Definition A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
  • English Word Chipping Definition 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.
  • English Word Chipping Definition The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
  • English Word Chipping bird Definition The chippy.
  • English Word Chipping squirrel Definition See Chipmunk.
  • English Word Chippy Definition Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.
  • English Word Chippy Definition A small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.
  • English Word Chips Definition A ship's carpenter.
  • English Word Chiragra Definition Gout in the hand.
  • English Word Chiragrical Definition Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.
  • English Word Chiretta Definition A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
  • English Word Chirk Definition To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries.
  • English Word Chirk Definition To chirp like a bird.
  • English Word Chirk Definition To cheer; to enliven; as, to chirk one up.
  • English Word Chirk Definition Lively; cheerful; in good spirits.
  • English Word Chirm Definition To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.
  • English Word Chirm Definition Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing.
  • English Word Chirognomy Definition The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.
  • English Word Chirograph Definition A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party.
  • English Word Chirograph Definition The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine.
  • English Word Chirographer Definition One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.
  • English Word Chirographer Definition See chirographist, 2.
  • English Word Chirographic Definition Alt. of Chirographical
  • English Word Chirographical Definition Of or pertaining to chirography.
  • English Word Chirographist Definition A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.
  • English Word Chirographist Definition One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.
  • English Word Chirography Definition The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.