chinkbug (chingkbug)

A corrupt form of chinch- bug. chinkerst (ching'kėrz), n. pl. [ Are men like us to be entrapped and sold And see no money down, Sir Hurly-Burly?... So let us see your chinkers . Sir H. Taylor , Ph. van Artevelde, II., iii. 1. chinking (ching'king), n. [Verbal n. of chink1, v.] 1. The proce of filling the interstices between the logs of log houses preparatory to plastering them over with clay. The double proce is known as chinking and daubing.-2. The material used for filling chinks. The interstices of the log wall were "chinked," the chinking being large chips and small slabs. and the daubing yellow clay. Carlton, The New Purchase, I. 61. chinky (ching'ki), a. [ of chinks or fi ures; gaping; opening in clefts or crevices. Plaister thou the chinky hives with clay. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 63. chinned (chind), a. [ chin + -ed2.] feathers of the back and tail. See Poly plectron. chin-scab (chin's kab), n. A disease in sheep, called by shepherds dartars. chinse (chins), v. t.; pret. and pp. chinsed, ppr. chinsing. [Appar. for * chinch, ME. * chinchen (which appears in chinch ing -iron chinch ing-iron for chinsing iron); an a ibilated form of chink1, v., 2.] Naut., to calk temporarily, ily, as the seams of a ship, by forcing in the oakum with a chisel or the point point of a knife. The ends and edges are chinsed or lightly caulked. The arle, Naval Architecture, § 230. chinsing-iron (chin's ing-ī"ėrn), n . [Earlier Banded Hickory-borer ( Chion cinct us ), natural size. acutely triangular scutellum, a lateral spine, but no dorsal callosities on the thorax, and elytra and thighs spinose at the tip. The single North American species constituting this genus, C. cinct us (Drury), is very variable in size and color, but is usually brownish-gray, and is covered with short whitish gray hair, each wing-case having an oblique ocher-colored band. Sometimes the beetle is uniformly brownish-yellow. It is very abundant in the eastern parts of the United States, its larvæ tunneling in the solid wood of hickory-trees. Practical Entomologist, I. 30.