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Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. Beau. & Fl.

Chippendale, attempting to adapt medieval details. The forms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism (…

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

ination. I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon.

o a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever. -- Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus. -- Cholera infantum, a dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities. -- Cholera morbus, a disease characterized by vomitin…

rangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

A cord. Chorda dorsalis (. Etym: [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.

Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast. [Colloq.]

Minced meat. [Obs.] Bacon.

A clay tobacco pipe, with a long tube. [Slang, Eng.] There was a small wooden table placed in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

lamor, or confused noise; buzzing. [Obs.] The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.

A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking. Cigar fish (Zoöl.), a fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

the stock; and the stock is but passive, and giveth aliment, but no motion, to the graft. Bacon.

To bear or carry round. [Obs.] Bacon.

The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

To stun with noise. [R.] Bacon.