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To give expression to in a chirping tone. Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.

Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

aints a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

To make a short, shrill, cheerful sound; to chirp. See Chirrup. "Cheruping birds." Drayton.

Whooping cough.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.

tached to the log line. Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo. -- Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape. -- Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3. -- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] Milton.- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin s…

A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

small American sparrow (Spizella socialis), very common near dwelling; -- also called chipping bird and chipping sparrow, from its simple note.

To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

arge cities. -- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cho…

To interrupt; -- with in or out. This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in. Latimer.

the mapping or description of a region or district. The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together. "When they had ordained them elders in every church." Acts xiv. 23.

A kind of weak cider made by steeping the refuse pomace in water. Ciderkin is made for common drinking, and supplies the place of small beer. Mortimer.

To move circularly; to form a circle; to circulate. Thy name shall circle round the gaping through. Byron.

n event; a fact; a particular incident. The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in histery. Addison.

Aping, or having, the manners of a city.