Chunk

A short, thick piece of anything; as, a chunk of wood, a chunk of bread. (Vulgarly used in the U. States, and in England.) Chun-khing', a city of China, prov. Tze-chuen, on a tributary of the Yang-tse-kiang, 115 m. E. of Ching-te-foo. Chunk'y, a. Squat; short; thick; lumpy; as, a chunky boy. (American.) Chun-ning', a city of China, prov. of, and 170 m. from Yun-nan. of Pekin. Chun-te, a city of China, prov. Chih-le, 220 m. S.S.W. Chupat', in Patagonia, a river which empties into the Atlantic, Lat. 14° 15′ S., Lon. 65° W. Chu'pee Creek, in Georgia, flows S.E. through Bibb and Monroe cos., and runs into the Ocmulgee abt. 9 m. S. of Macon. Chup'par ah, a town of Hindostan, British pres. of Bengal, 90 m. N.N.E. of Nagpoor. Chup'rah, in Hindostan, a town, in prov. Bahar. dist. Sarun, of which it is the cap., on the Ganges, 33 m. W. by N. of Patna. Lat. 25° 45′ N., Lon. 84° 48′ E. Pop . abt. 40,000. rust-red, and the wings are rose-colored, DER-BEETLE. It is a beautiful object when flying, with (C. scalar is.) its silvery wing-coverts embo ed with green, raised up, and its rose-red wings spread out beneath them. These beetles inhabit the elm and lime-trees. as indicative of secret triumph or derision. -v. a. To call, as a hen her chickens; to chuck. "If these birds are within distance, here's that will chuckle 'em together." Dryden. To cocker; to care ; to fondle. "Your confe or Chrysophyllum, n. [Gr. chrysos , gold, phyllon , a leaf.] ( Bot .) A genus of tropical trees, order Sapotacese . The species C. cainito yields a delicious fruit known as the Star-apple. C. Buranheim furnishes the astrin- gent bark called Monesia bark, which has been much employed in Europe. This bark contains an acrid prinrant; stupid; as, a chuckle - headed lad. must chuckle you, and moan you."-Dryden. Chuckle-head, n . One who has a thick head (infer- ring a scarcity or density of brain); a numskull; a stupid fellow. Chuck 'le-headed, a . Thick-headed; obtuse; ignoChuck-will's-wid'ow,n. ( Zool .) See GOAT-SUCKER. Chucui'to, or CHUCUYTO, in Bolivia, a town, cap. of province of the same name, dep. of Puño. It is situated on the W. border of Lake Titicaca, 20 m. S.E. of Puño, and 85 E. of Are quip a. It has beautiful remains of antiquity, and in the province are gold and silver mines. Pop . of prov. 80,000. saw co., flows into the Oklibbeha Chuquibam'ba, in Peru, a town, 15 m. N.W. of Are quip a, at the foot of a mountain of the same name, 21,000 feet in height; Lat. 15° 50′ S., Lon. 72° 20 W. Chuquisaca, (commonly called SUCRE.) ( choo'ke sa'ka ,) a city of S. America, cap. of republic of Bolivia, on the N. bank of the Cachimaya, 55 m. E.N.E. of Potosi, and 220 S.W. of Santa Cruz de la Sierra; Lat. 190 29' S., Lon. 66° 40′ W. It is, generally, a handsome city, with public fountains and pleasant gardens. Clim . Mild, but subjected to heavy rains and frequent storms. C. was founded in 1539. Estim , pop . 20,000. It is also called CHARCAS, OF L PLATA. Chur, or COIRE, ( shoor ,) a city of Switzerland, cap. of cant. of Grisons, in the valley of the Upper Rhine; Lat. 46° 80′ N., Lon. 9°35′ E. It is a quaint, old-world place, with manufactures of zinc-wares and cutlery. Pop . 6,990. Church, n. [Gr. Kyria - kon , from Kyrios, the Lord, (a doubtful derivation;) A.S. circe , circ, or cyric: Du. kerke Greek ἐκκλησία (Fr. église), which, from its original meaning of a convened a embly, is employed, 1st, to denote the whole body of true believers, or the visible church; 2d, in addition to these, the spirits of the just made perfect, or the invisible Church; 3d, any congregation of Christians met together in a single place, or the body of believers resident in a town or district; and 4th, the edifice in which they meet for divine worship. To these we may add a fifth sense of the modern term church, when it is applied to a distinct religious community; as, the Roman Catholic, the Luther an, the Baptist, . The true definition of the visible Church has been a matter of much controversy. In this matter, as in any question relating to differences of Christian creeds, we decline to enter the field. ( Arch . ) Having described the forms of the earliest ec clesiastical structures of the Christians under the term BASILICA, and the general divisions of a church under the head of CATHEDRA, we have here but to add that the churches are usually cla ed as follows in all countries where distinctions are recognized in them: pontifical , as St. Peter's at Rome, where the Pope occasionally off i of the Christian Church.