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CHINK, n. A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.

CHINK, v.i. To crack; to open.

CHINK, v.t. To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK, v.t. [See Jingle.] To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.

CHINK, v.i. To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.

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CHINK, n. A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.

CHINK, v.i. To crack; to open.

CHINK, v.t. To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK, v.t. [See Jingle.] To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.

CHINK, v.i. To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.

CHINK, n. [This word may be a derivative from the Saxon cinan, or ginian, geonan, to gape, to yawn; Gr. χαινω; or from the common root of these words. Sax. cina, or cinu, a fissure.]

A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.

CHINK, v.i.¹

To crack; to open. – Barret.

CHINK, v.i.²

To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies. – Arbuthnot.

CHINK, v.t.¹

To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK, v.t.² [see Jingle.]

To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money. – Pope.

Chink

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.

Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
Macaulay.
To crack] to open.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

"Chink of bell." Cowper.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

Pope.
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

Arbuthnot.
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Money; cash.

[Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.

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Chink

CHINK, noun A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.

CHINK, verb intransitive To crack; to open.

CHINK, verb transitive To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK, verb transitive [See Jingle.] To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.

CHINK, verb intransitive To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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neither

NEITHER, n. [Compound pronoun, pronominal adjective, or a substitute, and not either, or not other. Not either; not the one nor the other.]

1. It refers to individual things or persons; as, which road shall I take? Neither, take neither road. The upright judge inclines to neither party. It is used as a substitute; as, the upright judge inclines to neither of the parties.

He neither loves Nor either cares for him.

2. It refers to a sentence; as, ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it. That is, ye shall not eat, not either or other shall ye touch it; ye shall not eat, nor shall ye do the other thing here mentioned, that is, touch it. Genesis 3.

Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king; that is, fight not, either with small or great. 1 Kings 22.

Neither, in the first part of a negative sentence, is followed by nor, in the subsequent part. It is neither the one nor the other. But or would be most proper, for the negative in neither, applies to both parts of the sentence. It is often used in the last member of a negative sentence instead of nor, as in the passage above cited. Ye shall not eat it , neither shall ye touch it. Here neither is improperly used for nor, for not in the first clause refers only to that clause, and the second negative refers only to the second clause. Ye shall not eat it, nor shall ye touch it. In the sentences above, neither is considered to be a conjunction or connecting word, though in fact it is a pronoun or representative of a clause of a sentence.

3. Neither primarily refers to two; not either of two. But by usage it is applicable to any number, referring to individuals separately considered. Five or ten persons being charged with a misdemeanor or riot, each may say, neither of us was present.

4. Neither sometimes closes a sentence in a peculiar manner, thus, men come not to the knowledge of ideas thought to be innate, till they come to the use of reason; not then neither. That is not either when they come to the use of reason, or before. Formerly, in English, as in Greek and French, two negatives were used for one negation. But in such phrases as that above, good speakers now use either; nor then either.

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