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One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.

nguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues.

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

line (Naut.), a line or cord about a hundred and fifty fathoms long, fastened to the log-chip. See Note under 2d Log, n., 2. -- Log perch (Zoöl.), an ethiostomoid fish, or darter (Percina caprodes); -- called also hogfish and rockfish. -- Log reel (Naut.), the reel on which the log line is wound. -- Log slate. (Nau…

A part of the log. See Log-chip, and 2d Log, n., 2.

brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

, to negotiate peace, or an exchange. Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago ... the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.

See Chippeways.

Same as Chippeways.

for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus.

A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the f…

A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Balfour (Cyc. of India)

A fragment or chip of stone. [Written also scabline.]

A chip; a alice. [Prov. Eng.] Gayton.

A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.

To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

Prov. Eng.] Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.

e eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.