CHI

n. 1. A Hebrew term for cauterization. fL, 105 (a. 21).] 2. According to some, the Phoenician name for mastic; a word said to give its name to the island of Chios, from which mastic was exported. [B, 121.] 3. In India, the Ba ia butyracea. [Roxburgh (B, 121).] 4. A crucial incision. [B, 116.] [s. 223]