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The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.
Whooping cough.
A country in Eastern Asia.
China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain.
See Quinaldine.
A native of China; a Chinese.
of Chinaman
See Chinquapin.
The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor.
A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis.
Parsimonious; niggardly.
Penuriousness.
A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.
The fur of the chinchilla.
A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.
Alt. of Chincona
See Cinchona.
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.