chink (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A fissureII. A sound, as of money rattled • chink (subs.): I. A fissure: rīma: a narrow c., r. angusta, Hor.: to stop up c.s, r. explere, Cic. Phr.: to gape open in c.s, fătiscere, Virg. (also, rimis fatiscere, Virg.): v. FISSURE, cleft. II. A sound, as of money rattled: tinnītus, ūs: v. tinkling.
CHINK Copy link • CHINK 1. rima: fissura (a greater one). A jingling, circumlocution with tinnire, e.g., tinnienda re (of an instrument, after Varr., R.R., 3, 16, 30), (also with money; Vid: Cic.., Att., 14, 21, extr): tinnitum ciere is poetical. 2. v. rimas fieri pati; rimas agere: findi. To jingle, Vid: above.