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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,455 words match “HIP”

CHIEFTAINCY; CHIEFTAINSHIP n.

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

The state or relation of being a child.

CHIP v. 10 definitions

To bet, as with chips in the game of poker. To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]

A squirrel-like animal of the genus Tamias, sometimes called the striped squirrel, chipping squirrel, ground squirrel, hackee. The common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glue…

CHIPPER v. 2 definitions

To chirp or chirrup. [ Prov. Eng.] Forby.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

CHIPPING n. 3 definitions

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

CHIPPING BIRD n.

CHIPPING SQUIRREL n.

CHIPPY a. 2 definitions

Abounding in, or resembling, chips; dry and tasteless.

A ship's carpenter. [Cant.]

CHURCHMANSHIP n.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

State of being a church. South.

CHURCHWARDENSHIP n.

The office of a churchwarden.

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.

A state of being united togheter as in a clan; an association under a chieftain.

State, quality, or business of a clerk.

Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

COACHMANSHIP n.

Skill in driving a coach.