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A servant; a farm laborer; a peasant; a hind. [Obs.] Bailiff, herd, nor other hine. Chaucer.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

A Russian measure of length = 2 ft. 4.246 inches.

Shining; radiant.

To shine upon; to ullumine.

Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

Fullness of branches.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

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

The condition or quality of being bushy.

Rectified oil of turpentine, used for burning in lamps, and as a common solvent in varnishes.

One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

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…