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.
2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.
&fist; Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
Chi"nese" (?), a.
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
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
Coccidæ especially Coccus
Sinensis.