Vocabulary : Chine to Chinoidine
Chine : 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. ;; The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. ;; A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.] ;; The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave. ;; To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. ;; Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..Chined : of Chine ;; Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition. ;; Broken in the back.
Chinese : Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. ;; A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. ;; The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
Chinese Exclusion Act : 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 reenacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States.
Chink : A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. ;; To crack; to open. ;; To cause to open in cracks or fissures. ;; To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall. ;; A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. ;; Money; cash. ;; To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. ;; To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
