1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink
(Chink), n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]
1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.
2. Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.
Chink
(Chink), v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by
bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.
Chink
(Chink), v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money,
or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.
Chinky
(Chink"y) a. Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.
Chinned
(Chinned) a. Having a chin; — used chiefly in compounds; as, short- chinned.
Chinoidine
(Chi*noid"ine) n. [NL. chinium quinine (cf. G. & F. china Peruvian bark) + —oil + -ine.]
(Chem.) See Quinodine.
Chinoline
(Chin"o*line) n. [NL. chinium quinine (see Chinoldine) + L. oleum oil + -ine.] (Chem.) See
Quinoline.
Chinone
(Chi"none) n. [NL. chinium quinine (see Chinoidine.) + -one.] (Chem.) See Quinone.
Chinook
(Chi*nook") n.
1. (Ethnol.) 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.
2. A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the
Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
3. A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks)
generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.
