Chinese \Chi"nese"\, a.
   Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
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   Chinese paper. See India paper, under India.

   Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from
      China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of
      the family Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis.
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	Chinese \Chi*nese"\, n. sing. & pl.
   1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race
      with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.
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   2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
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   Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of
         Shakespeare and Milton.
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	Chinese
     adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures;
            "Chinese food"
     2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic
        on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the
        Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Formosan]
     n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded
          as dialects of a single language (even though they are
          mutually unintelligible) because they share an
          ideographic writing system
     2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist
        China