Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chiton

Chiton , noun

[Greek {not transcribed} a chiton (in sense 1).]

1.
An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
2.
(Zoology) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.