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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.

Chinese paper

See

India paper

, under

–

Chinese wax

a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family

Coccidæ

especially

Coccus Sinensis

Noun.

ing.

pl.

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

sing.

The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

☞ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

Adj.

Pertaining to China.

Noun.

sing. and plu. A native of China; also, the language of China.