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A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

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.

Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular poss…

Fullness of branches.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.

A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.

Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges).

A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

The state of being itchy.

titute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

One who or operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]

Machines, in general, or collectively.

listering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. Bastard manchineel, a tree (Cameraria latifolia) of the East Indies, having similar poisonous properties. Lindley.

Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.