chino line (kinolin)

[NL. china, quinine beetles, of the group Cerambyci, characterized (see quinine ), + -ol + -ine2.] An artificial alby the rounded cavities of the front coxæ, an kaloid, CoH7N, which is obtained by distilling quinine or cinchonine with potash, or synthetically from aniline and nitrobenzene by treatment with sulphuric acid and glycerin. It is a colorle liquid with a penetrating odor, is a powerful antiseptic, and has been used in medicine as an antiperiodic in intermittent fevers. Also spelled quinoline. Chinook (chi-nuk'), n. [Amer. Ind.] 1. A jargon of Indian, French, and English used as a means of communication with the native tribes in British America, and now extensively employed, especially on the northwestern Pacific coast, not only between the whites and the Indians, but also between the Indians of tribes having different languages. It is similar in character to "Pidgin English," being made of native and foreign words gro ly corrupted and often fancifully used. For example, the Chinook name for a male "Indian" is siwash, from the French sauvage; an English man is a King George man; a Boston man is a person from the United States; and clouds are smock (English smoke ). All words in Chinook are very much aspirated, gutturalized, sputtered, and swallowed. T. Winthrop , Canoe and Saddle. 2. [ l . c.] A name given in the extreme northwestern part of the United States to a warm, intervals, especially on the eastern slopes of the dry westerly or northerly wind which is felt at mountains. In the winter and early spring it causes a very rapid disappearance of the snow. It is similar to the foehn of Switzerland. See foehn. When we reached Spokan Falls we heard the line was breached in sixty or eighty places; a chinook or warm the line. wind had produced a thaw, and the floods had washed out W. Shepherd , Prairie Experiences, p. 116. chin-piece (chin'pēs), n. Same as chin - band , (b). name of the peacock-pheasant of the East ock-pheasant men (F. chincapin, chinquapine ); of Amer. Ind. origin.] 1. The dwarf chestnut of the United States, Castanea pumila, a shrub or tree, ranging from Pennsylvania to Texas, and bearing a nut similar to that of the chestnut, but smaller and solitary in the bur. IMG:content-0304.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. On the Pacific coast of the United States, the Cast an ops is chrysophylla, a tree or shrub of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains. This is more nearly allied to the oak than to the chestnut, though the nut, which is not edible and does not bur. See mature till the second year, is inclosed in a similar spiny 3. The nut of Castanea pumila. Of their Chesnuts and Che chin qua mens boyled 4 houres, they make broath and bread for their chiefe men. Capt. John Smith , Works (ed. Arber), p. 58. Chinkapins have a taste something like a chestnut, and grow in a husk or bur, being of the same sort of sub stance, but not so big as an acorn. They grow upon large bushes, some about as high as the common apple trees in England, and either in the high or low, but always bar Beverley, Virginia, ii. 14. ren ground.