Chineseadj.n.

1577 R. Willes in R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 260 Whence the Chinishe nation haue theyr prouision for shppyng.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 192 That of the Chineze Kings.

1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. i. iii. 59 The Chinese Language.

1878 J. H. Gray China I. i. 2 There can be..no doubt of the great antiquity of the Chinese Empire.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Chinese has no analogy with any other Language in the World.

1870 F. W. Farrar Greek Syntax §6 Chinese has never possessed cases or inflections of any kind.

1881 Nature 22 Dec. 179/1 Large and well-appointed steamers, Chinese-owned and manned.

1882 Garden 21 Jan. 46/3 Among deciduous trees that flower about the end of April..one of the most beautiful is the Chinese Crab.

1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 354/2 Chinese or Japanese galls..are supposed to be produced by a..species of aphis on a terebinthinous plant.

1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 33/1 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Indian or Chinese rose.

1837 T. Rivers Rose Amateur's Guide 68 The common Chinese Rose, (Rosa indica), and the crimson Chinese Rose, or Rosa semperflorens.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at China The tsi-chu, or varnish-tree, which produces the admirable Chinese varnish.

1891 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener & Home Farmer 19 Mar. 224/1 Another good vegetable, and one that will be largely grown when more known, is the new Chinese artichoke, Stachys tuberifera, and the best way to cook it is to fry it in butter.

1902 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: R–Z 1714/1 Chorogi. Chinese or Japanese Artichoke. Knotroot.

1950 C. R. Metcalfe & L. Chalk Anat. Dicotyledons II. 1051 The tubers of the so-called Chinese artichoke (Stachys sieboldi Miq.) are edible.

1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 192 The majority are herbs, and may be either annual (Hemp-Nettle) or perennial (Mint, Bugle, Chinese Artichoke).

1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food ii. 63 The Jerusalem artichoke and the Chinese artichoke are tubers.

1998 National Gardening Apr. 33/2 You might know it by one of its other names: Chinese or Japanese artichoke, chorogi, and knot-root.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Chinese-balance, a form of the steelyard having four points of suspension, and as many quadrated sides to the weight-arm of the lever.

1926 Leedy Mfg. Co. Catal. n. 36 Chee Foo Chinese Blocks are of the same high-grade quality as all other drummers' accessories of this brand.

1946 R. Hill in A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music vii. 107 The use of the Chinese block in the finale has led some undiscerning critics to claim the influence of jazz.

1829 R. C. Sands Writings (1834) II. 57 Some of the members..thus compacted like Chinese boxes.

1921 V. Woolf Monday or Tuesday 78 Like a vast nest of Chinese boxes..turning ceaselessly one within another the city murmured.

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. ii. 34 There is no rank scale in lexis: no ‘Chinese box’ arrangement of pattern-carrying units.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist v. 627 The Chinese Cabbage..is an annual, apparently intermediate between the cabbage and the turnip.

1885 W. Miller tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) 147 Chinese Cabbage, or Pe-tsai..differs entirely in appearance from the Cabbages of Europe, being rather like a Cos Lettuce in aspect.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Dec. 523/3 Chinese cabbage is not grown to a great extent by home gardeners.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Chinese-capstan, a differential hoisting or hauling device, having a vertical axis, and therein only differing from the differential windlass.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt v. 59 The reading-room in Chinese Chippendale.

1924 A. E. W. Mason House of Arrow xiii. 153 The writing-table of Chinese Chippendale.

1943 D. Welch Maiden Voy. vii. 52 The librarian was showing us some Chinese Chippendale chairs.

1882 B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. vii. 144 Your asking me if I take exception to any of your arrangements is only a Chinese compliment.

1920 Hansard Commons CXXXV. 1490 A Chinese copy..is..a copy with the words struck out showing the alterations.

1964 Evening Standard 14 Oct. 11/3 Although these missiles are being bought from the United States each consignment will include spare parts sufficient for four or five years. This means that..there would be time to manufacture in this country what the Navy calls ‘Chinese copies’.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 346/1 s.v. Chinese Pavilion, Chinese Crescent..consists of a pole, with several transverse brass plates of some crescent or fantastic form, and generally terminating at top with a conical pavilion or hat..On all these parts a number of very small bells are hung which the performer causes to jingle.

1937 Daily Express 28 Jan. 18/2 Farnes, bowling really fast, twice took Leyland's leg stump in a few minutes, the batsman trying to make what Duckworth called ‘Chinese cuts’.

1956 A. R. Alston Test Comm. ix. 62 Oakman edged an intended off-drive past the leg-stump for four, a stroke variously described as a Chinese cut, a Surrey cut or a Staffordshire cut.

1925 Weekly News (Auckland) 1 Oct. 62 The Chinese gooseberry..has been introduced into Auckland.

1944 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 111/1 The Chinese gooseberry, the fruit of a vine imported from China, is gaining increasing popularity in New Zealand.

1944 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 112/3 In many ways the Chinese gooseberry resembles the grape-vine.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1027 Chinese lanterns are hung.

1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1320/2 P[hysalis] Alkekengi var. Franchetii, Hort. Chinese Lantern Plant.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xvii. 163 Shrubs of Chinese lanterns with pods that crack when squeezed.

1881 Lady Monkswell Diary 12 Nov. in Victorian Diarist (1944) 96 When I passed through New York before I had not noticed the Chinese laundries.

1961 Times 2 Oct. 3/4 The Widow Twankey in her Chinese laundry.

1886 G. Nicholson Illustr. Dict. Gardening II. 244/1 This is sometimes called the Chinese method of Layering, presumably on account of it being more generally adopted in China.]

1900 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: E–M 894/2 This kind of propagation is known as air-layering, Chinese layering or circumposition.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Air layering, a form of propagation, employed with certain plants whose branches cannot be brought to the ground for layering, in which a portion of a branch or stem, sometimes girdled, is kept covered, as by wrapping with moist soil, moss, or the like, until it forms roots and may be detached from the parent and planted... The process is specified as pot layering when the rooting medium is enclosed, as in a pot or box, and as marcottage, or Chinese layering, when the ball of earth or moss is merely tied about the stem.

1880 Appleton's Jrnl. Mar. 270/2 It would scarcely be surprising if such a one were in doubt whether burnt sienna, mars orange, Chinese orange, lemon yellow, [etc.] ..were not connected with fruit and confectionery.

1837 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 617 The Chinese pavilion, the triangle [etc.] are almost entirely confined to military music, though..sometimes used in theatrical orchestras.

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 346/1 s.v. Chinese Pavilion, Chinese Crescent..consists of a pole, with several transverse brass plates of some crescent or fantastic form, and generally terminating at top with a conical pavilion or hat..On all these parts a number of very small bells are hung which the performer causes to jingle.

1797 Encycl. Brit. VI. 9/1 The Chinensis, Chinese, or Indian pink.

1825 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 52 2564 (heading) Primula Sinensis. Chinese Primrose.

1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 595 The Chinese Primrose.

1887 Nicholson's Dict. Gardening at Primula Perhaps the best-known Primula is that which is very generally cultivated for greenhouse and room decoration.., namely, the Chinese Primrose (P. sinensis).

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 397 P[rimula] sinensis, ‘Chinese Primrose’, various [colours], winter and spring, 9 in., China.

c1815 [Pamphlet, Brit. Mus. No. 15. 257 d. 18, containing upwards of 330 figures, formed out of the seven pieces of the ‘tangram’] (title) A Grand Eastern Puzzle. The following Chinese puzzle is recommended to the Nobility, Gentry, and others, being superior to any hitherto invented for the amusement of the Juvenile World.

1844 Juvenile Missionary Mag. Sept. 90 A real Chinese Puzzle.—Young people are fond of puzzles, and have often puzzled for hours over bits of wood called Chinese Puzzles, to very little purpose.

1859 M. Gatty Aunt Judy's Tales 60 Putting Chinese puzzles together into stupid patterns.

1874 S. W. Williams Syllabic Dict. Chinese Lang. 987 [Ch‘i ch‘iao t‘u] The Chinese puzzle of seven pieces, the tangram.

1895 Gentleman's Mag. vol. 278, p. 279 The Chinese religion may be said to be a Chinese puzzle.

1906 Times 1 Feb. (heading) Faulty Legislation: A statute is by this process converted into a sort of Chinese puzzle.

1892 W. Crookes tr. R. von Wagner Man. Chem. Technol. iii. 480 Conspectus of inorganic pigments... Reds... Vermilion, cinnabar, Chinese red (HgS).

1935 Discovery Aug. 240/2 A wooden fence painted in Chinese red.

c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 5 The common toy, the Chinese tumbler.

1886 H. C. Standage Artists' Man. Pigments v. 48 Chinese vermilion, or Carmine vermilion.

1962 R. G. Haggar Dict. Art Terms 75/1 Chinese vermilion, genuine vermilion.

1907 C. J. Bullock Sel. Readings in Econ. xx. 672 The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls.

1934 T. S. Eliot Elizabethan Ess. 22 After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression.

1941 W. H. Auden New Year Let. ii. 34 They fought over their premises, Shut out from Eden by the bar And Chinese Wall of Barbara.

1941 A. Koestler Scum of Earth 269 It succumbed..to a social phenomenon, which it might be appropriate to call the ‘Chinese Wall psychosis’.

1979 Amer. Banker 25 Jan. 5/3 The Chinese Wall question has been raised anew. But the Morgan spokesman says the bank sees no conflict.

1984 National Westm. Bank Q. Rev. Nov. 36 The increase in risk of conflict of interests arising from the conglomeration of financial activities can be contained by erecting ‘Chinese Walls’ among the various activities carried out by a single firm.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Chinese Chinese wheel is an engine..for raising water from rivers to irrigate plantations of sugar canes.

1964 Guardian 13 Mar. 5/6 The children's game of ‘Chinese whispers’..in which whispered messages were passed around the room and the version which came back to the starting point bore no relation to the original message.

1984 T. Augarde Oxf. Guide Word Games xviii. 167 This is the basis for a game which ‘Professor Hoffmann’..calls Russian Gossip (also known as Chinese Whispers). The participants are arranged in a circle, and the first player whispers a story or a message to the next player, and so on round the circle. The original story is then compared with the final version, which has often changed beyond recognition.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Chinese-windlass, a differential windlass in which the cord winds off one part of the barrel and on to the other.