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2. Broken in the back. [Obs.]

He's chined, goodman.

Beau. & Fl.

Chi"nese" (?), 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
Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

Chi*nese", n. sing. & pl.
1. A native or natives of China, or one of
that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in
China.

2. sing. The language of China,
which is monosyllabic.

&fist; Chineses was used as a plural by the
contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

Chink (ch&ibreve;&nsm;k), n. [OE.
chine, AS. cīne fissure, chink, fr.
cīnan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to
sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft,
rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack;
as, the chinks of a wall.

Through one cloudless chink, in a black,
stormy sky.


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