What is "chilian"

Usage examples of "chilian".

On the Chilian plant the petioles of the younger leaves on upright branches, stood horizontally during the day, and at night sank down vertically so as to depend parallel and close to the branch beneath.

Such was the state of the conflict in the latter part of 1816, when San Martin, collecting the scattered bands of Chilian troops and adding them to men of his own command, got together a formidable array five thousand strong.

Although there is a small supply of Chilian Guano, which is gathered from the rocks in pale yellow masses, some of which has been sent to England and this country, which is equal to any ever discovered in any part of the world, yet the great bulk of the deposit is so inferior that Chilian guano will never meet with universal favor.

English clothes were discarded for a more Chilian garb, including a poncho and a broad-leafed sombrero.

Unlike most Chilian residences, it was of three storeys, and built of stone--a bad speculation on the part of an English builder.

One glance told him that it was filled with the lowest scum of the Chilian mob, frenzied with debauchery and incendiarism.

Kety motioned ghem-General Chilian nearer, and dispatched him to gain permission for the transfer.

Spanish rule and became first president of the Chilian Republic in 1818.

They were in a very damaged condition, but among them he raked out a few Spanish volumes, and determined forthwith to set to work to master the language of Cer-vantes, as no one on board understood it, and it would be helpful in their search along the Chilian coast.

The church steeple and the Chilian flag gleamed for an instant among the trees, and then the strait wound on between huge granitic masses which had an imposing effect.

But to the question whether a three-mast vessel, called the BRITANNIA, had gone ashore either on the Chilian or Araucanian coast, he gave a decided negative.

The CATAPEZ, as he was called in Chilian, had two natives called PEONS, and a boy about twelve years of age under him.

Glenarvan, an experienced traveler, who knew how to adapt himself to the customs of other countries, adopted the Chilian costume for himself and his whole party.

Peruvian and Chilian ports and thence found their way across the Pacific to the Philippines.

Perhaps some other, for enchanted cities and Eldorados were plentiful in those days in America, alternating with occasional empires, as that of Puytita, near the Laguna de los Xarayes, Manoa, and the Ciudad de los Cesares, supposed to be situated near Arauco in the Chilian Andes.