chiolite (kiolit)

[ Full ofte he heweth up so highe, Tat chippes fallen in his eye. Gower, Conf. Amant., I. 106. 2. Wood, coarse straw, palm-leaves, or similar material split into thin slips and made by weaving into hats and bonnets. The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, and chip hats, Sinollett , Humphrey Clinker. chip 3. Anything dried up and deprived of strength and character. He was. a chip, weak water-gruel, a tame rabbit. Colman the Younger, Poor Gentleman, iii. 1. Specifically-4. The dried dung of the American bison; a buffalo-chip. [Colloq.] -5. Naut., the quadrant-shaped piece of wood attached to the end of the log-line. See log. Had it not been for the sea from aft which sent the chip 965 2. The flying or breaking off in small pieces of the edges of pottery and porcelain.-3. A chip; a piece cut off or separated by a cutting or engraving instrument or by a blow; a fragment. They dung their land with the chippings of a sort of soft stone. Mortimer , Husbandry. chipping-bird (chip'ing-bėrd), n . Same as chip bird . home, and threw her continually off her course, the log chipping-chisel (chip'ing-chiz "el), п. would have shown her to have been going somewhat faster. R. H. Dana , Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 388. 6. One of the small disks or counters used in The chisel employed in the operation of chipping; a cold-chisel having a face somewhat convex, and an angle of about 80°. See chipping , 1. chipping-machine (chip'ing-ma-shen"), n . A poker and some other games at cards, usually of ivory or bone, marked to represent sums of money.-7. A carpenter: commonly planing-machine used for cutting dyewoods in the plural. [Naut. slang.]-8. A small wedge-shaped piece of ivory used in rough-tuning a piano.- A chip of the old block, a familiar phrase applied to a child or an adult who, either in person or in disposition and character, resembles his father. into chips. E. H. Knight. chipping-piece (chip'ing-pes), n. In founding: (a) An elevated cast or forged surface, affording surplus metal for reduction by the tools. (b) The projecting piece of iron cast on the face of a piece of iron framing, when intended to be rested against another piece. "Yes, yes, Chuffey; Jonas is a chip of the old block. It's a very old block now, Chuffey," said the old man. Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit, xviii. chip2 (chip), v . i.; pret. and pp. chipped , ppr. chipping. [Imitative; cf. cheep , and see chip2 , chipping-squirrel (chip'ing-skwur"el), n . Same n., chip - bird , chipper2 , v., chipmunk , etc.] To as chipmunk .