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adj. 1. broad in scope or content.
Syn. -- all-embracing, across-the-board, blanket(prenominal), broad, complete, global, panoptic, wide. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Tincal. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Aëronautics) The angle between the chord of an aërocurve and the relative direction of the undisturbed air current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pinched with hunger; starved. “The belly-pinched wolf.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bepinched ] To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the part of the skull that encloses the brain.
Syn. -- cranium, brainpan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a product of one's creative thinking and work; as, the project was the brainchild of the director.
Syn. -- inspiration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the Pyrrhula vulgaris or Pyrrhula rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ As a cage bird it is highly valued for its remarkable power of learning to whistle correctly various musical airs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crimson-fronted bullfinch. (Zool.) See Burion. --
Pine bullfinch, the pine finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Written also cainca root. ] [ See Cahincic. ] (Bot.) The root of an American shrub (Chiococca racemosa), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps Chiococca racemosa; as, cahincic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Captaincies The rank, post, or commission of a captain. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

Captaincy general, the office, power, territory, or jurisdiction of a captain general; as, the captaincy general of La Habana (Cuba and its islands). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chiff-chaff. ] (Zool.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla cœlebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Chaplaincies The office, position, or station of a chaplain. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chinquapin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. chinche, fr. L. cimex. ] 1. (Zool.) The bedbug (Cimex lectularius). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A bug (Blissus leucopterus), which, in the United States, is very destructive to grass, wheat, and other grains; -- also called chiniz, chinch bug, chink bug. It resembles the bedbug in its disgusting odor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chinchilla. ] (Zool.) A south American rodent of the genus Lagotis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) see chinch{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

a. [ F. chiche miserly. ] Parsimonious; niggardly. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Penuriousness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] 1. (Zool.) A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fur of the chinchilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A heavy, long-napped, tufted woolen cloth.

n. a natural family of small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.
Syn. -- family Chinchillidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a gregarious burrowing rodent (Lagostomus maximus) larger than the chinchillas.
Syn. -- viscacha, Lagostomus maximus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. [ Compar. chinchier superl. chinchiest ] [ See chinche. ] same as stingy.
Syn. -- cheap, chintzy, stingy, chinche. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } any of several trees of the genus Cinchona. Same as Cinchona. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. cincha, fr. L. cingere to gird. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A strong saddle girth, as of canvas. [ West. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tight grip. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cinched p. pr. & vb. n. Cinch"ing.] 1. To put a cinch upon; to girth tightly. [Western U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. To get a sure hold upon; to get into a tight place, as for forcing submission. [Slang, U. S.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. i. To perform the action of cinching; to tighten the cinch; -- often with up. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ So named from the wife of Count Chinchon, viceroy of Peru in the seventeenth century, who by its use was freed from an intermittent fever, and after her return to Spain, contributed to the general propagation of this remedy. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cinchona. ] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cinchona: cf. F. cinchonine. ] (Chem.) One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Cinchona. ] (Med.) A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. a natural family of birds comprising the water ouzels, also called dippers, which dive under water in flowing streams.
Syn. -- family Cinclidae. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the type genus of the bird family Cinclidae. It includes the water ouzels Cinclus aquaticus of Europe and Cinclus mexicanus of western North America.
Syn. -- genus Cinclus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. cinctura, fr. cingere, cinctum, to gird. ] 1. A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. “Within the cincture of one wall.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Having or wearing a cincture or girdle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. circum- + L. incedere, incessum, to walk. ] (Theol.) The reciprocal existence in each other of the three persons of the Trinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clinched p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching. ] [ OE. clenchen, prop. causative of clink to cause to clink, to strike; cf. D. klinken to tinkle, rivet. See Clink. ] 1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. “Clinch the pointed spear.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pun. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument. [ 1913 Webster ]