chink1 (chingk)

[An extension, with -k, of ME. chine, chine, AS. cinu, cine, a a c crack, chine, chink: see chinel, n.] A crack; a cleft, rent, or fi ure of greater length than breadth; a gap: as, the chinks of a wall. Yet is this glimpse of this bright shining Sun comfortable throw this chinke and key-hole of our bodily prison. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 3. Looked at in reference to this globe, an earthquake is no more than a chink that opens in a garden walk of a dry day in summer. Theodore Parker , Ten Sermons. chink1 (chingk), v. [Not found in ME. except as in chinse : see chink1 , n., and cf. chinse. Cf. chine1, v.] I. in trans . To crack; split; gape. II. trans. 1. To cause to open or part and form a fi ure; make chinks in. The skin of that great body is chopped and chinked with drought. Bp . Hall , Seasonable Sermons, p. 15. Here they rode singly in a green twilight chinked with golden lights. The Century , XXXI. 73. 2. To fill up chinks in: as, to chink a wall or a pavement. The intervals between the beds being chinked with stones of the minutest thinne . L. H. Morgan , Amer. Ethnol., p. 157. 3. To put into a chink or chinks: as, to chink in mortar. chink2 (chingk), v. [ Chymyn, or chenken wythe bellys [var. clinke bell], tintillo. Prompt . Parv ., p. 75. Not a guinea chink'd on Martin's boards. IMG:content-0301.jpg:[graphic] Swift . IMG:content-0302.png:[blocks in formation] The keeping of an inn: Where every jovial tinker, for his chink , May cry, Mine host! B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. chink3 (chingk), n. [Prop. imitative, like the equiv. fink , finch , spink. Cf. chink2.] 1. The chaffinch, Fringilla cœlebs . [Prov. Eng.] -2. The reed-bunting, Emberiza schœniculus. chink4+ (chingk), n. [A ibilated form of kink2, q. v. Cf. chin- cough.] A fit, as of coughing or laughing. Here my lord and lady took such a chink of laughing that it was some time before they could recover. Brooke, Fool of Quality, i. 35. His [the rector's] kind face was all agape with broad smiles, and the boys around him were in chinks of laugh chinkot, n. [A var., perhaps a misprint, of Gaskell , Cranford, ix. chinch2.] An obsolete form of chinch2. Theod. I thank you, hoste . Pray you, will you shew me in? Hoste . Yes, marry, will I, sir; IMG:content-0303.jpg:[blocks in formation]