Chiron, a celebrated Centaur, in whose nature the animal element was subject to the human, and who was intrusted with the education of certain heroes of Greece, among others Peleus and Achilles; was endowed with the gift of prophecy, and skilled in athletics as well as music and the healing art. See Centaurs.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chiriqui * Chislehurst