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n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The arched part of a structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Hogging; -- opposed to sagging. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Arshine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. baldachinus, baldechinus, a canopy of rich silk carried over the host; fr. Bagdad, It. Baldacco, a city in Turkish Asia from whence these rich silks came: cf. It. baldacchino. Cf. Baudekin. ] 1. A rich brocade; baudekin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. an informal intensifier; as, we had a bitching good time. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. complaining; griping. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

n. The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fullness of branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shaded with branching palm. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sciences, with their numerous branchings. L. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. [ 1913 Webster ]

I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes,
Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of bull. ] A little bull. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cachinnatio, fr. cachinnare to laugh aloud, cf. Gr. kacha`zein. ] Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capucin a monk who wears a cowl, fr. It. cappuccio hood. See Capoch. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Eccl.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai. (b) Other species of Cabus, as Cabus fatuellus (the brown capucine or horned capucine.), Cabus albifrons (the cararara), and Cabus apella. (c) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capuchin nun, one of an austere order of Franciscan nuns which came under Capuchin rule in 1538. The order had recently been founded by Maria Longa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Infectious; contagious. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Captivating; alluring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of seizing or taking hold of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) One of the tannic acids (C15H14O6), extracted from catechu as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, catechinic acid, cyanidol, and catechuin. It is a flavonoid found generally in higher woody plants, and is used in dyeing and tanning. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ AS. cin, akin to OS. kin, G kinn, Icel. kinn, cheek, Dan. & Sw. kind, L. gena, Gr. &unr_;; cf. Skr. hanu. √232. ] 1. The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A country in Eastern Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. [ 1913 Webster ]

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) 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. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans.
Syn. -- China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a tree of N India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern US as a shade tree.
Syn. -- chinaberry tree, China tree, Persian lilac, pride-of-India, azederach, azedarach, Melia azederach, Melia azedarach. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. chinium quinine + aldehyde. ] (Chem.) See Quinaldine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chinamen A native of China; a Chinese. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. dishes made of china; porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Chinquapin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex. ] 1. (Zool.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chinchilla. ] (Zool.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) see chinch{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

a. [ F. chiche miserly. ] Parsimonious; niggardly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Penuriousness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] 1. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fur of the chinchilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.

n. a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.
Syn. -- family Chinchillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a gregarious burrowing rodent (Lagostomus maximus) larger than the chinchillas.
Syn. -- viscacha, Lagostomus maximus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. [ Compar. chinchier superl. chinchiest ] [ See chinche. ] same as stingy.
Syn. -- cheap, chintzy, stingy, chinche. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } any of several trees of the genus Cinchona. Same as Cinchona. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ For chink cough; cf. As. cincung long laughter, Scot. kink a violent fit of coughing, akin to MHG. kīchen to pant. Cf. Kinknaust, Cough. ] Whooping cough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chink. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. eschine, F. échine, fr. OHG. skina needle, prickle, shin, G. schiene splint, schienbein shin. For the meaning cf. L. spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backbone. Cf. Shin. ] 1. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. “And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [ See Illust. of Beef. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chined ] 1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Broken in the back. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He's chined, goodman. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]