Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 54
Choke pear () A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered. [Low] -- S. Richardson.
Choker (n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
Choker (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock. [Slang]
Choker (n.) Someone who kills by strangling [syn: garroter, garrotter, strangler, throttler, choker].
Choker (n.) An unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation; "he could win if he wasn't a choker."
Choker (n.) Necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck [syn: choker, collar, dog collar, neckband].
Choker (n.) A high tight collar [syn: choker, ruff, ruffle, neck ruff].
Choke-strap (n.) (Saddlery) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Choking (a.) That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
Choking (a.) Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
Choking (n.) A condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx).
Choking (n.) The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling].
Choky; Chokey (a.) Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
Choky; Chokey (a.) Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." -- Aytoun.
The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey. -- T. Hughes.
Choky (n.) A station, as for collection of customs, for palanquin bearers, police, etc. [India]
Choky (n.) Specif., a prison or lockup; a jail. [India, or Slang, Eng.]
Choky (a.) So tight as to tend to choke; "a choky collar."
Choky (n.) British slang (dated) for a prison [syn: chokey, choky].
Cholaemia (n.) (Med.) A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
Cholagogue (a.) (Med.) Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholagogue (n.) An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.
Cholecystis (n.) (Anat.) The gall bladder.
Cholecystotomy (n.) (Surg.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
Choledology (n.) (Med.) A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. -- Dunglison.
Note: Littr['e] says that the word chol['e]dologie is absolutely barbarous, there being no Greek word ?. A proper form would be cholology.
Choleic (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
Choler (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.]
His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. -- I. Warton.
Choler (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
He is rash and very sudden in choler. -- Shak.
Cholera (n.) (Med.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
Asiatic cholera, A malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterized by diarrhea, rice-water evacuations, vomiting, cramps, pinched expression, and lividity, rapidly passing into a state of collapse, followed by death, or by a stage of reaction of fever.
Cholera bacillus. See Comma bacillus.
Cholera infantum, A dangerous summer disease, of infants, caused by hot weather, bad air, or poor milk, and especially fatal in large cities.
Cholera morbus, A disease characterized by vomiting and purging, with gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance.
Chicken cholera. See under Chicken.
Hog cholera. See under Hog.
Sporadic cholera, A disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.
Choleraic (a.) 霍亂的，霍亂性的，類似霍亂的 Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.
Choleric (a.) 易怒的，暴躁的；膽汁質的 Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. -- Dryden.
Choleric (a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
Choleric (a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric speech." -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Choleric temperament, The bilious temperament.
Choleric (a.) Easily moved to anger; "men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing" -- H.G.Wells.
Choleric (a.) Quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: {choleric}, {irascible}, {hotheaded}, {hot-tempered}, {quick- tempered}, {short-tempered}].
Choleric (a.) Characterized by anger; "a choleric outburst"; "an irascible response" [syn: {choleric}, {irascible}].
Cholericly (adv.) In a choleric manner; angrily.
Choleriform (a.) Resembling cholera.
Cholerine (n.) (Med.) The precursory symptoms of cholera.
Cholerine (n.) (Med.) The first stage of epidemic cholera.
Cholerine (n.) (Med.) A mild form of cholera.
Choleroid (a.) Choleriform.
Cholesteric (a.) Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid. -- Ure.
Cholesterin (n.) (Chem.) A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones. Choliamb
Compare: Lipid
Lipid (n.) (Chem., Biochem.)【生化】脂質；脂肪 Any of a variety of oily or greasy organic compounds found as major structural components of living cells; they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents such as alcohol and ether, and include the common {fats}, {cholesterol} and other steroids, {phospholipids}, {sphingolipids}, {waxes}, and {fatty acids}; some of the lipids, together with proteins and carbohydrates, form an essential structural component of living cells, as in the cell walls and membranes. The term lipid refers to its solubility in nonpolar solvents, and has no significance with regard to chemical structure.
Syn: lipide, lipoid.
Cholesterol (n.) 【生化】膽固醇 An animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues [syn: {cholesterol}, {cholesterin}].
Choliamb (n.) Alt. of Choliambic.
Choliambic (n.) (Pros.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last. Cholic
Cholic (a.) Alt. of Cholinic.
Cholinic (a.) (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.
Cholic acid (Chem.), A complex organic acid found as a natural constituent of taurocholic and glycocholic acids in the bile, and extracted as a resinous substance, convertible under the influence of ether into white crystals.
Choline (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) See Neurine.
Cholochrome (n.) (Physiol.) See Bilirubin.
Cholophaein (n.) (Physiol.) See Bilirubin.
Choltry (n.) A Hindoo caravansary.
Chomp (v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] -- Halliwell.
Chondrification (n.) (Physiol.) Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
Chondrify (v. t. & i.) To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.
Chondrigen (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.
Chondrigenous (a.) (Physiol.) Affording chondrin.
Chondrin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin. See also chondroitin sulfate.
Chondrite (n.) (Min.) A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.
Chondritic (a.) (Min.) Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
Chondritis (n.) (Med.) An inflammation of cartilage.
Chondro- () A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.
Chondrodite (n.) (Min.) A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
Chondroganoidea (n.) (Zool.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondrogen (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Chondrigen.
Chondrogenesis (n.) (Physiol.) The development of cartilage.
Chondroid (a.) Resembling cartilage.
Chondrology (n.) (Anat.) The science which treats of cartilages. -- Dunglison.
Chondromata (n. pl. ) of Chondroma.
Chondroma (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth.
Chondrometer (n.) A steelyard for weighting grain.
Chondropterygian (a.) Having a cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondropterygian (n.) One of the Chondropterygii.
Chondropterygii (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]
Chondrostei (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
Chondrotomy (n.) (Anat.) The dissection of cartilages.
Chondrule (n.) (Min.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.
Chose (imp.) of Choose.
Chosen (p. p.) of Choose.
Chose () of Choose.
Choosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choose.
Choose (v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
Choose me for a humble friend. -- Pope.
Choose (v. t.) To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.]
The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. -- Goldsmith.
To choose sides. See under Side.
Syn: To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow.
Usage: To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress.
Chose (n.; pl. Choses.) (Law) A thing; personal property.
Chose in action, A thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit.
Chose in possession, A thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action.
Chose local, A thing annexed to a place, as a mill.
Chose transitory, A thing which is movable. -- Cowell. Blount.
Chose (imp. & p. p.) of Choose.
Choose (v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.
They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. -- Prescott.
Choose (v. i.) To do otherwise. "Can I choose but smile?" -- Pope.
Can not choose but, Must necessarily.
Thou canst not choose but know who I am. -- Shak.
Choose (v.) Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: choose, take, select, pick out].
Choose (v.) Select as an alternative over another; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast" [syn: choose, prefer, opt].
Choose (v.) See fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam."
Chooser (n.) One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. -- Burke. Choosey
Chooser (n.) A person who chooses or selects out [syn: picker, chooser, selector].
Chopped (imp. & p. p.) of Chop.
Chopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chop.
Chop (v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
Chop (v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
Chop off your hand, and it to the king. -- Shak.
Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.]
Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. -- L'estrange.
Chop (v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
Chop (v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. -- L'Estrange.
Chop (v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in. -- Latimer.
Chop (v. t.) To barter or truck.
Chop (v. t.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
We go on chopping and changing our friends. -- L'Estrange.
To chop logic, To dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.
Chop (v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
Chop (v. i.) (Naut.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
Chop (v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. -- Bacon.
Chop (n.) A change; a vicissitude. -- Marryat.
Chop (v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
Chop (n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
Chop (n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Chop (n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
Chop (n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
Chop (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
Chop (n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
Chop (n.) A permit or clearance.
Chop dollar, A silver dollar stamped to attest its purity.
Chop of tea, A number of boxes of the same make and quality of leaf.
Chowchow chop. See under Chowchow.
Grand chop, A ship's port clearance. -- S. W. Williams.
Chop (n.) The irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide); "the boat headed into the chop."
Chop (n.) A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
Chop (n.) A jaw; "I'll hit him on the chops."
Chop (n.) A tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball [syn: chop, chop shot].
Chop (n.) A grounder that bounces high in the air [syn: chop, chopper].
Chop (v.) Cut into pieces; "Chop wood"; "chop meat" [syn: chop, chop up].
Chop (v.) Move suddenly.
Chop (v.) Form or shape by chopping; "chop a hole in the ground."
Chop (v.) Strike sharply, as in some sports.
Chop (v.) Cut with a hacking tool [syn: chop, hack].
Chop (v.) Hit sharply.
Chopboat (n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] -- S. W. Williams.
Chopchurch (n.) (Old Eng. Law) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]
Chopfallen (a.) Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.
Chopfallen (a.) Brought low in spirit; "left us fatigued and deflated spiritually" [syn: chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, deflated].
Chophouse (n.) A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.
The freedom of a chophouse. -- W. Irving.