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Chin"qua*pin (?), n. (Bot.)
A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea
pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high,
allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.
[Written also chincapin and chinkapin.]

Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak
(Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible
acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an
evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the
Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30
to 125 feet high.

Chinse (?), v. t. & i.
[imp. & p. p. Chinsed (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Chinsing.] (Naut.) To
thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of
a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

Chinsing iron, a light calking
iron.

Chintz (?), n.; pl.
Chintzes (#). [Hindi chīnt spotted
cotton clooth, chīntā spot.] Cotton
cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of
different colors, and often glazed. Swift.

Chiop*pine" (?), n.


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