Chinny-mumps. A Yorkshire music made by rapping the chin with the knuckles.
Chints or Chintz (Hindoo, chhint, spotted cotton cloth). Cotton cloth printed in more than two colours.
Chiramaxium, Gr. and R. (χειρ-αμάξιον, i. e. hand-cart). An invalid’s chair mounted upon two wheels, and drawn or pushed by slaves.
Chiridota, Gr. and R. (from adj. χειριδωτὸς, i. e. lit. having sleeves). Tunics with long sleeves, worn in especial by the Asiatic races and by the Celts. The early Britons, before the Roman invasion, wore close coats checkered with various colours in divisions, open before and with long close sleeves to the wrist.
Chirimia, Sp. (from chirimoya, a pear). An oboe.
Chirography. The art of writing with hands.
Chirology. The art of talking with the hands.
Chiromancy (μάντις, a soothsayer). Divination from the lines of the palms of the hands.
Chironomia, Gr. and R. (χειρο-νομία, i. e. measured motion of the hands). The mimetic art. By this term is expressed not only the art of speaking with gestures and by means of the hands, but also the action of speaking combined with gesticulation. This art dates from a high antiquity. It was originally part of the art of dancing,—clapping the hands in rhythm; also a gymnastic exercise, for pugilists and others.
Chiroplast. An instrument for teaching fingering of musical instruments, invented by Logier in 1810.