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Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

In a chirping manner.

A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

The plane in crystals of the monoclinic system which is parallel to the vertical and the inclined lateral (clinidiagonal) axes.

The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins. clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

To compress; to shut up. [Obs.] Burton.

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping. Gwill.

A cop of thread.

A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold. [Obs.] Swift.

Same as Countertrippant.

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.

Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." Gen. vi. 20.

The stonecrop (Sedum acre).

by creeping slowly; in the manner of a reptile; insidiously; cunningly. How slily and creepingly did he address himself to our first parents. South.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.