Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 53
Chloralum (n.) An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
Chloranil (n.) A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.
Chlorate (n.) A salt of chloric acid; as, chlorate of potassium.
Chloraurate (n.) See Aurochloride.
Chlorhydric (a.) Same as Hydrochloric.
Chlorhydrin (n.) One of a class of compounds formed from certain polybasic alcohols (and especially glycerin) by the substitution of chlorine for one or more hydroxyl groups.
Chloric (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, chloric acid, HClO3.
Chloridate (v. t.) To treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography.
Chloride (n.) A binary compound of chlorine with another element or radical; as, chloride of sodium (common salt).
Chloridic (a.) Of or pertaining to a chloride; containing a chloride.
Chloridize (v. t.) See Chloridate.
Chlorimetry (n.) See Chlorometry.
Chlorinated (imp. & p. p.) of Chlorinate.
Chlorinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chlorinate.
Chlorinate (v. t.) To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.
Chlorination (n.) The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.
Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4.
Chloriodic (a.) Compounded of chlorine and iodine; containing chlorine and iodine.
Chloriodine (n.) A compound of chlorine and iodine.
Chlorite (n.) The name of a group of minerals, usually of a green color and micaceous to granular in structure. They are hydrous silicates of alumina, iron, and magnesia.
Chlorite (n.) Any salt of chlorous acid; as, chlorite of sodium.
Chloritic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, chlorite; as, chloritic sand.
Chlormethane (n.) A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride.
Chloro- () A prefix denoting that chlorine is an ingredient in the substance named.
Chlorocruorin (n.) A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms.
Chlorodyne (n.) A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.
Chloroform (n.) A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor and a sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and an alkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anaesthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.
Chloroformed (imp. & p. p.) of Chloroform.
Chloroforming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chloroform.
Chloroform (v. t.) To treat with chloroform, or to place under its influence.
Chloroleucite (n.) Same as Chloroplastid.
Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
Chlorometry (n.) The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
Chloropal (n.) A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.
Chloropeptic (a.) Of or pertaining to an acid more generally called pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
Chlorophane (n.) A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light.
Chlorophane (n.) The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane.
Chlorophyll (n.) Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to which they owe their green color, and through which all ordinary assimilation of plant food takes place. Similar chlorophyll granules have been found in the tissues of the lower animals.
Chloroplastid (n.) A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.
Chloroplatinic (a.) See Platinichloric.
Chlorosis (n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
Chlorosis (n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
Chlorotic (a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, chlorosis.
Chlorous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.
Chlorous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.
Chlorpicrin (n.) A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine.
Chloruret (n.) A chloride.
Choak (v. t. & i.) See Choke.
Choanoid (a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
Chocard (n.) The chough.
Chocked (imp. & p. p.) of Chock.
Chocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chock.
Chock (v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
Chock (v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.
Chock (n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
Chock (n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
Chock (adv.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.
Chock (v. t.) To encounter.
Chock (n.) An encounter.
Chockablock (a.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.
Chock-full (a.) Quite full; choke-full.
Chocolate (n.) A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
Chocolate (n.) The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
Choctaws (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.
Chode () the old imp. of chide. See Chide.
Chogset (n.) See Cunner.
Choice (a.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
My choicest hours of life are lost. -- Swift.
Choice (a.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
Choice (a.) Selected with care,
and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
Choice word measured phrase. -- Wordsworth.
Syn: - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful.
Choice (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Choice (n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it. -- Hooker.
Choice (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
I imagine they [the apothegms of C[ae]sar] were collected with judgment and choice. --Bacon.
Choice (n.) A sufficient number to choose among. -- Shak.
Choice (n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
The common wealth is sick of their own choice. -- Shak.
Choice (n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound to bound. -- Milton.
To make a choice of, To choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.
Syn: - See Volition, Option.
Choice (a.) Of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: choice, prime(a), prize, quality, select].
Choice (a.) Appealing to refined taste; "choice wine".
Choice (n.) The person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" [syn: choice, pick, selection].
Choice (n.) The act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: choice, selection, option, pick].
Choice (n.) One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse" [syn: option, alternative, choice].
Choice. () Preference either of a person or thing, to one of several other persons or things. Election. (q.v.)
Choiceful (a.) Making choices; fickle. [Obs.]
His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. -- Spenser.
Choicely (adv.) With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.
Choicely (adv.) In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.
Choiceness (n.) The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
Choir (n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.
Choir (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.
Choir (n.) The chancel.
Choke (v. i.) 窒息；噎住；說不出話來； （管子等）塞住 To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
Choke (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
The words choked in his throat. -- Sir W. Scott.
Choke (n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
Choke (n.) (Gun.) The tied end of a cartridge.
Choke (n.) (Gun.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Choked (imp. & p. p.) of Choke.
Choking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choke.
Choke (v. t.) 使窒息；哽住；堵塞，阻塞 [（+up/ down）]；抑制，壓住 [（+back/ down/ off）] To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. -- Shak.
Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. -- Addison.
Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. -- Dryden.
Choke (v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
Choke (v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
To choke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
Choke (n.) A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current [syn: choke, choke coil, choking coil].
Choke (n.) A valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine.
Choke (v.) Breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion; "She choked with emotion when she spoke about her deceased husband".
Choke (v.) Be too tight; rub or press; "This neckband is choking the cat" [syn: choke, gag, fret].
Choke (v.) Wring the neck of; "The man choked his opponent" [syn: choke, scrag].
Choke (v.) Constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing [syn: choke, strangle].
Choke (v.) Struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate].
Choke (v.) Fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation; "The team should have won hands down but choked, disappointing the coach and the audience".
Choke (v.) Check or slow down the action or effect of; "She choked her anger".
Choke (v.) Become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" [syn: clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul] [ant: unclog].
Choke (v.) Impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" [syn: suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke].
Choke (v.) Become stultified, suppressed, or stifled; "He is suffocating--living at home with his aged parents in the small village" [syn: suffocate, choke].
Choke (v.) Suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of; "His job suffocated him" [syn: suffocate, choke].
Choke (v.) Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born].
Choke (v.) Reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke, throttle].
Choke (v.) Cause to retch or choke [syn: gag, choke].
Choke (v.) [common] To reject input, often ungracefully. ?NULs make System V's lpr(1) choke.? ?I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp(1) choked on all those #defines.? See barf, vi.
Choke, () To fail to process input or, more generally, to fail at any endeavor.
E.g. "NULs make System V's "lpr(1)" choke." See barf, gag. [{Jargon File] (2006-09-20)
Chokeberry (n.) (Bot.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub ({Pyrus arbutifolia}) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
Chokecherry (n.) (Bot.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry ({Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Chokecherry (n.) The fruit of the chokecherry tree.
Chokecherry (n.) A common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds [syn: chokecherry, chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana].
Choke damp () See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
Chokedar (n.) A watchman; an officer of customs or police. [India]
Choke-full (a.) Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
Choke-full (a.) Packed full to capacity; "chowder chockablock with pieces of fish" [syn: chockablock(p), chock-full, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full].
Choke pear () A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.