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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 269 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHOPSTICKS , the " See also:

PIDGIN

pidgin-See also:

ENGLISH

English " name for the pair of small tapering sticks used by the See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese and See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese in eating. " Chop " is pidgin-English for " See also:

QUICK

quick," the Chinese word for the articles being kwai-tsze, meaning " the quick ones." " Chopsticks " are commonly made of See also:

wood, See also:

bone or See also:

ivory, somewhat longer and slightly thinner than a See also:

lead-See also:

PENCIL (Lat. penicillus, brush, literally little tail)

pencil. Held between the thumb and fingers of the right See also:

hand, they are used as See also:

TONGS (O. Eng. Lange, M. Eng. tonge, cf. Du. tang, Ger. Zange, from base tang, to bite, cf. Gr. SaKVeiv)

tongs to take up portions of the See also:

food, which is brought to table cut up into small and convenient pieces, or as means for sweeping the See also:

rice and small particles of food into the mouth from the bowl. Many rules of See also:

ETIQUETTE

etiquette govern the proper conduct of the chop-sticks; laying them across the bowl is a sign that the See also:

guest wishes to leave the table; they are not used during a See also:

time of See also:

MOURNING (from the verb " to mourn," to be sorrowful, 0. Eng. murnan; cf. O.H.G. mornen, Goth. maurnan, to be anxious, O.N. morna, to pine away; by some referred to root seen in Gr. jdptpva, sorrow, by others to root mer-, to die)

mourning, when food is eaten with the fingers; and various methods of handling them See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a See also:

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret See also:

CODE (Lat. codex)

code of signalling.

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