ppl. a. [f. CHINE sb.2 and v.2]

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  1.  Having a chine; chiefly in comb.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 116. A good Horse … Double chinde upon his loines, a gutter runes withall.

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a. 1616.  Beaum. & Fl., Scornful Lady, V. i. (R.). These steele chind rascals that undoe us all.

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1861.  Times, 27 Sept., 7/4. A comely, well-shaped, full-chined, fine-snouted, thin-boned, kindly-haired hog is sure to be met with.

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  † 2.  Broken-backed. Obs. rare.

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1611.  Cotgr., Eschiné … Chyned, broken-backed.

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  † 3.  Affected with ‘mourning of the chine’; see CHINE sb.2 5.

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a. 1616.  Beaum. & Fl., Cust. Country, III. iii. He’s chin’d, he’s chin’d, good man: he is a mourner.

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