Chime

[From Chaucer, chimbe; from cimbal or cimble of bells. See CYMBAL.] A consonance of musical sounds; correspondence of sound; correspondence of proportion and relation of sound. "And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time."-A. Marvell. harmonious concert. "We have heard the chimes at midnight." - Shaks. in a church-tower, and rung by hammers which are moved by clock-work, or by hand. In the latter case they are commonly termed carillons ; a name generally applied indiscriminately by the French to the tune played, and to the series of bells, whether sounded by machinery or by hand. Among the finest sets of chimes are those of Copenhagen, Westminster, Ghent, and Amsterdam in Europe, and Chicago in Amer. - C. is used also in the same sense as CHIMB, q. v. C. ELECTRIC. large quantity of cider. Domestic animals are largely reared. Sheep are reared solely for their wool, and never used for food. The island swarms with hogs, and the hams of C. are celebrated in S. America. Poultry and fish are very abundant. Com . The principal ex- ports are planks, hams, brooms, hides, and woollen cloths. The archipelago po e es about 1,500 coasting ve els. Money is here nearly unknown, and traffic is conducted by barter, or payment in indigo, tea, salt, or cayenne pepper. The archipelago sends one member to the Chilian congre . Prin. towns. San Carlos (fort i- fied), Castro, and Maulin. The inhabitants are pa ion--To ately fond of music and dancing, and in 1897 their numbers amounted to 65,200. C. was the last po e ion held by Spain in the Pacific. -v.i. To sound in consonance or harmony, as bells. To make the rough recital aptly chime."-Prior. harmonize; to correspond or agree; to coincide with. (Often preceding in .) "He often chimed in with the discourse." -Arbuthnot. -To jingle; to clatter; to make rough consonance of sounds. "But with the meaner tribes I'm forced to chime."-Smith. Chil'ognatha, n. ( Zool .) See MYRIAPOD A. Chil'ogram, n. See KILOGRAMME. Chilopod, n. ( Zool .) See MYRIAPOD A. Chil'peric I., king of France, one of the 4 sons of Clov. a. To cause to sound in harmony; to strike or cause thaire I., attempted, at his father's death, to get po e ion of the undivided sovereignty, but was compelled to content himself with the kingdom of So is sons, or Neus tri a, in 561. Having divorced his first wife and caused his second to be strangled, he raised to their place his former mistre , the infamous Fredegonde, and her influence, in conjunction with his own ambition, plunged him into a series of wars and crimes which only terminated with his a a ination in 584, while engaged in an attempt to dispo e his brother Guntram of Burgundy. CHILPERIC II., a reputed son of Child eric II., who was placed upon the throne of Neustria at the death of Dagobert III. in 715, was a tool in the hands of Charles Martel. D. 720. Chiltepec', in Mexico, a river, tributary to the Tabasco. It leaves the main stream at San Juan Bautista, and taking a N. course of abt. 70 m. empties into the Gulf of Mexico, 30 m. W.S.W. of La Fronter a. Chil'tern Hills, or CHILTERNS, in England, is part of a ridge of low hills, hardly exceeding 900 feet above the level of the sea, running obliquely E. and W. through Bucking hams hire. This, once a place dangerously infested by freebooters, had, like the N. and W. Marches, an officer, or steward, to guard and watch over the welfare of the neighborhood. The function of the office is now, however, obsolete; and it is merely retained to give a member of parliament a legal opportunity for resigning his seat (which he cannot do unle in some way disqualified), it being regarded as a place to sound, as a set of bells. "And chime their sounding hammers in a row." -Dryden. Chime pan i pes'tick, in L. Canada, a river which enters the Gulf of St. Lawrence, about 20 m. S.W. of Seven Island Bay.