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72 words match “CHIP”

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.]

ARCHIPELAGIC a.

Of or pertaining to an archipelago.

ARCHIPELAGO n. 2 definitions

The Grecian Archipelago, or Ægean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.

ARCHIPTERYGIUM n.

The primitive form of fin, like that of Ceratodus.

A thin, flat piece of board in the form of a quadrant of a circle attached to the log line; -- called also log-ship. See 2d Log, n., 2.

tool, formed with a thin arching blade set at right angles to the handle. It is used for chipping or slicing away the surface of wood.

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n.

archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

erties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.