Chinese \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 Coccid[ae] especially Coccus Sinensis.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic.

Note: Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)