Chi map hila

[Gr. cheima, winter, and philos, to love.] ( Bot. ) A gen. of plants, order Pyrolacea. The Prince's pine or Pipsi iva, C. umbellata, and the spotted Winter-green, C. maculata, readily distinguished from the preceding by its variegated leaves, are common and beautiful evergreens, with purple flowers on nodding pedicles, found from Canada to Carolina in sandy woods. Both have tonic and diuretic properties. Chimay, (shoma,) a principality in Belgium, prov. of Hainault, with a cap. of same name, arrond. of Charleroi, on the river Blanche; pop . 3,500. Anciently the property of the lords of Croye, since the beginning of this century it has belonged to the noble French family, Riquet de Caraman. Chimay, (PRINCESSE DE). See TALLIEN. Chimb, n . [Du. kim , border; Ger. kim me , allied to Fr. cime, top, ridge; L. Lat. cima ; Gr. kūma , for kueта , anything swollen, from kuō , to hold, contain.] The edge or brim of a cask, or tub; formed by the ends of the staves. (Written also CHIME.) Chimbaron'go, in Chili, a river in the prov. of Colchagua, rises in the Andes, abt. Lat. 34° 55′ S., and flowing N.W., Lat. 34° 25', joins the Tinguiririca, and the two united meet the Rapel. Chim'bo, a town of Ecuador, at the foot of Chimb or azo, 50 m. N.E. of Guayaquil. Chimb or aʼzo, Chimb or a'co, a conical peak of the Andes, in Ecuador, Lat. 1° 30′ S., and Lon. 79° W.; height 21,420 feet above the sea, but only about 12,000 above the level of its own table-land. Humboldt ascended within 2,138 feet of the top, but the summit was only reached in 1880 by Wymper. See ANDES.