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a. Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized:
French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze;
Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments; and
Gothic Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

It must be clearly and unmistakably understood, then, that, whenever painted (that is to say, decorated with painted enrichment) or inlaid furniture is described as Chippendale, no matter where or by whom, it is a million chances to one that the description is incorrect. R. D. Benn. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. i. [ Cf. Cheep, Chirp. ] To chirp or chirrup. [ Prov. Eng. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lively; cheerful; talkative. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Chippeway. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and western shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The chippy. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Chipmunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless. [ 1913 Webster ]