First or foremost; chief; principal.

Without a chief or leader.

In the first place; principally; pre/minently; above; especially.

A small rent paid to the lord paramount.

A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

Love; tender regard.

An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.

See Cheve, v. i.

A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps.

Any merely ornamental adjunct of a woman's dress, as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.

One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

a small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans); same as chigoe.

an erect perennial of eastern and southern U. S. (Asclepias tuberosa) having showy orange flowers.

A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.

A species of flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.

An old breed of tiny short-coated dogs with protruding eyes, originating in Mexico, believed to antedate Aztec civilization.

The goat antelope (Tragops Bennettii) of India. The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

To produce chilblains upon.

A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling of the feet or hands, produced by exposure to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

To give birth; to produce young.

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.

Furnished with a child.

The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful.

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.

The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.

Destitute of chidren or offspring.

The state of being childless.

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

Like a child.

The manner characteristic of a child.

pl. of Child.

The state or relation of being a child.

A native or resident of Chile; Chilian.

A kind of red pepper. See Capsicum

A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.

A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.

A figure bounded by a thousand plane surfaces

Of or pertaining to Chili. A native or citizen of Chili.

The commander or chief of a thousand men.

A body consisting of a thousand men.

The millennium.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a millenarian.

Millenarian.

To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.

See Chili.

A state or sensation of being chilly; a disagreeable sensation of coldness.

Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner.

Coolness; coldness; a chill.

Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.

A myriapod of the order Chilognatha.

One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrally, near together.

The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.

A myriapod of the order Chilopoda.

One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipedes. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs converted into poison fangs. They are insectivorous, very active, and some species grow to the length of a foot.

An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells.

Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma.

A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Chimaeriformes of the class Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

Related to, or like, the chim/ra.

Chime.

To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.

One who chimes.

A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached.

Chimerical.

Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

Wildy; vainly; fancifully.

A toll for passage through a forest.

A fireplace or hearth.

The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.

A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace; also, the shelf that projects from wall above fireplace; mantlepiece.

a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft.

the part of the chimney that is above the roof; it usually has several flues.

someone who cleans soot from chimneys, usually as a profession.

a small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter sweet.

same as chimpanzee.

An african ape (Pan troglodytes, formerly Anthropithecus troglodytes, or Troglodytes niger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. It is the most intelligent of non-human animals, and when full grown, it is from three to four feet high. A variant called the pygmy chimpanzee, or bonobo, has been recently recognized as a separate species.

The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

an arm exercise performed by pulling oneself up on a horizontal bar until the chin is level with or above the bar.

a light informal conversation for social occasions.

A country in Eastern Asia.

an evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by native Americans.

See Quinaldine.

A native of China; a Chinese.

dishes made of china; porcelain; -- so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europe at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general.

See Chinquapin.

The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).

see chinch{2}.

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.

a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.

a gregarious burrowing rodent (Lagostomus maximus) larger than the chinchillas.

same as stingy.

To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; -- used in composition.

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.

To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned.

a coarse, tough, twilled cotton fabric used for uniforms or sports clothes.

See Quinodine.

Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.

See Quinoline.

See Quinone.

One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.

trousers made with chino cloth.

A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.

To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.