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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.

To cut small pieces from; to diminsh or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. Shak.

delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze; Chinese Chippendale, marked by latticework and pagodal…

ll pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

The art of judging character by the shape and apperance of the hand.

Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.

A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

In a shotgun, a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance (usually 2½ to 3 inches) to the rear of the muzzle, in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot.

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

strument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

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

Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. -- Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.

A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.

hing circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. [Written also cithern.] Shak.

A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.