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Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical changes; chemical comnbinations. Chemical attraction or affinity. See under Attraction.

Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis. [R.]

Of or pertaining to cherubs; angelic. "The cherubic host." Milton.

Of or pertaining of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.

Of or pertaining to Chios, an island in the Ægean Sea. Chian earth, a dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic. -- Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to Chile.

Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.

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

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.

Of or pertaining to chirography.

Of or pertaining to chiromancy.

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3. Chloric ether (Chem.), ethylene dichloride. See Dutch liquid, under Dutch.

Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.

Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.

Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin- hydrochloric acid.

Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.