CHILLON’ (Prisoner of) Francois de Bonnivard, of Lunes, the Genevese patriot (1496-1571) who opposed the enterprises of Charles III. (the duke-bishop of Savoy) against the independence of Geneva, and was cast by him into the prison of Chillon, where he was confined for six years.  Lord Byron makes him one of six brothers, two of whom died on the battle-field; one was burnt at the stake, and three were imprisoned at Chillon.  Two of the prisoners died, but Francois was set at liberty by the people of Berne.—­Byron, Prisoner of Chillon (1816).

CHIMENE (La Belle) or Xime’na, daughter of count Lozano de Gormaz, wife of the Cid.  After the Cid’s death she defended Valentia from the Moors with great bravery, but without success.  Corneille and Guihem de Cantro have introduced her in their tragedies, but the role they represent her to have taken is wholly imaginary.

CHINAMAN (John), a man of China.

CHINDASUIN’THO (4 syl.), king of Spain, father of Theod’ofred, and grandfather of Roderick last of the Gothic kings.—­Southey, Roderick, etc. (1814).

CHINESE PHILOSOPHER (A).  Oliver Goldsmith, in the Citizen of the World, calls his book “Letters from a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his Friends in the East” (1759).

CHINGACHGOOK, the Indian chief, called in French Le Gros Serpent.  Fenimore Cooper has introduced this chief into four of his novels, The Last of the Mohicans.  The Pathfinder.  The Deerslayer, and The Pioneer.

CHINTZ (Mary), Miss Bloomfield’s maid, the bespoken of Jem Miller.—­C.  Selby, The Unfinished Gentleman.

CHI’OS (The Man of), Homer, who lived at Chios [Ki’.os].  At least Chios was one of the seven cities which laid claim to the bard, according to the Latin hexameter verse: 

  Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios,
  Argos, Athenae.—­Varro.

CHIRN’SIDE (Luckie), poulterer at Wolf’s Hope village.—­Sir W. Scott, Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

CHI’RON, a centaur, renowned for his skill in hunting, medicine, music, gymnastics, and prophecy.  He numbered among his pupils Achilles, Peleus, Diomede, and indeed all the most noted heroes of Grecian story.  Jupiter took him to heaven, and made him the constellation Sagittarius.

... as Chiron erst had done To that proud bane of Troy, her god-resembling son [Achilles].  Drayton, Polyolbion, v. (1612).

CHIRRUP (Betsey), the housekeeper of Mr. Sowerberry, the misanthrope.—­W.  Brough, A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock.

CHITA, the child orphaned by the fearful tragedy detailed in Lufcadio Hearn’s Chita:  A Memory of Last Island.  The little one is dragged from her dead mother’s neck while she has still the strength to cry out “Maman! maman!” and borne through the surf by the fisherman Felix, to the arms of his wife.  Brought up as the child of the humble pair, she never suspects that the stranger who, years after, dies of yellow fever brought from New Orleans to Felix’s hut is her father (1888).