Chipping

A chip or fragment cut off. -( Pottery.) The breaking off short of small pieces from the edges of earthenware or porcelain. Chip'ping-bird, n. (Zool.) See ZONOTRICHIA. Chippy, a. Having many chips. Chipwan'ic, in Indiana , a creek in Fulton co., flows into the Tippecanoe River. Chiquimula, (ISTHMUS Or,) in Central America, to the S.E. of the peninsula of Yucatan, in Lon. 890 W. Its breadth from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific is about 150 miles - the greatest elevation not exceeding 2,000 feet. Chiquimula de la Sierra, a town of Guatemala, cap. of a dep., about 85 m. E.N.E. of Guatemala city; pop. 7,000. Chiquitos, (che- ketose ,) a territory of Bolivia, dep. of Santa Cruz, extending N. and S. of the eastern base of the Andes. The country is generally uncultivated, and only partially inhabited. Lat. between 150 and 17° S. Chira'cra, n. [Lat.; Gr. cheiragra.] ( Med .) Gout in the hands.