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To choose [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular poss…

the language of the Cingalese. -- a.

The common rape or cole.

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.

ys, commonly having a serpentine blade. [Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

To cut, as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]

ecrate. The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. W. Tooke. The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag.

The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

One who desecrates. "Desecrators of the church." Morley.

The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. Shak. His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamil…

especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

Meritorious. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. Bancroft.…

Without desert. [R.]

Undeservedly. [R.] Beau. & Fl.