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Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.

See Quinoline.

See Quinone.

s now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.

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 Chi…

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.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. Swift.

That aches; continuously painful. See Ache. -- Ach"ing*ly, adv. The aching heart, the aching head. Longfellow.

of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

The arched part of a structure.

See Arshine.

d from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

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

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

The art, act, or occupation or catching birds or wild fowls.

oving color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

Fullness of branches.

with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

ipping on the breech. I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe.