Chu*pat"ty (?), n.; pl. - ties (#). [Hind. chapt.] A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the natives of India. [Anglo-Indian]
{ Chu*pras"sy Chu*pras"sie } (?), n. [Hind. chaprss, fr. chaprs badge.] A messenger or servant wearing an official badge. [Anglo-Indian]
Churr (?), n. [Cf. Chirr.] A vibrant or whirring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.
Churr, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Churred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Churr"ing.] To make a churr, as a cockchafer.
That's the churring of the nightjar.
Hall Caine.
Churr, v. t. To utter by churring.
Cinch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cinched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cinch"ing.] 1. To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. [Western U. S.]
2. To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. [Slang, U. S.]
Cinch, v. i. To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up. [Western U. S.]
Cinch, n. [Cf. cinch a girth, a tight grip, as v., to get a sure hold upon; perh. so named from the tactics used in the game; also cf. Sp. cinco five (the five spots of the color of the trump being important cards).] A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called right pedro) and the five of the same color (called left pedro, and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) each count five on the score. Fifty-one points make a game. Called also double pedro and high five.
Cinch, v. t. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
Cin*cin"nus (?), n.; pl. - ni (#). [Also cicinus, cicinnus.] [L., a curl of hair.] (Bot.) A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. -- Cin*cin"nal (#), a.
Cin`e*mat"o*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, motion + -graph.] 1. A machine, combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features, for projecting on a screen a series of pictures, moved rapidly (25 to 50 a second) and intermittently before an objective lens, and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion; a moving-picture machine; also, any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects. Other common names for the cinematograph are animatograph, biograph, bioscope, electrograph, electroscope, kinematograph, kinetoscope, veriscope, vitagraph, vitascope, zoögyroscope, zoöpraxiscope, etc.
The cinematograph, invented by Edison in 1894, is the result of the introduction of the flexible film into photography in place of glass.
Encyc. Brit.
2. A camera for taking chronophotographs for exhibition by the instrument described above.
Cin`e*ma*tog"ra*pher (?), n. One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.
Ci*ne"mo*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; motion + -graph.] An integrating anemometer.
Cin`que*cen"tist (?), n. 1. An Italian of the sixteenth century, esp. a poet or artist.