Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 55
Chophouse (n.) A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] -- S. W. Williams.
Chopin (n.) A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
Chopin (n.) See Chopine.
Chopine (n.) A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.]
Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. -- Shak.
Chopin (n.) The music of Chopin; "he practiced Chopin day and night"
Chopin (n.) United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904) [syn: Chopin, Kate Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Chopin].
Chopin (n.) French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849) [syn: Chopin, Frederic Francois Chopin].
Chop-logic (n.) One who bandies words or is very argumentative. [Jocular] -- Shak.
Chopness (n.) A kind of spade. [Eng.]
Chopper (n.) One who, or that which, chops.
Chopper (n.) A grounder that bounces high in the air [syn: chop, chopper].
Chopper (n.) Informal terms for a human `tooth' [syn: chopper, pearly].
Chopper (n.) An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades [syn: helicopter, chopper, whirlybird, eggbeater].
Chopper (n.) A butcher's knife having a large square blade [syn: cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper].
Chopping (a.) Stout or plump; large. [Obs.] -- Fenton.
Chopping (a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
Chopping (n.) Act of cutting by strokes.
Chopping block, A solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc.
Chopping knife, A knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.
Choppy (a.) Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." -- Shak.
Choppy (a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
Choppy (a.) Marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn: choppy, jerky].
Choppy (a.) Rough with small waves; "choppy seas."
Chops (n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
Chops (n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.
Chopstick (n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Chopsticks (n.) chopstick; A pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in restaurants serving oriental food. Chop suey
Chopstick (n.) One of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with.
Choragic (a.) Of or pertaining to a choragus.
Choragic monument, A building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.
Choragic (a.) Pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus.
Choragi (n. pl. ) of Choragus.
Choragus (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.
Choral (a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
Choral service, A service of song. Choral
Choral (n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.
Choral, chorale (n.) (Mus.) A stately hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by
the congregation, used mostly in Protestant (especially Lutheran) churches; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written chorale.]
Choral (a.) Related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir; "choral composition"; "choral ensemble."
Choral (n.) A stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune [syn: chorale, choral].
Choralist (n.) A singer or composer of chorals.
Chorally (adv.) In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
Chorally (adv.) By a chorus; "chorally accompanied."
Chord (n.) The string of a musical instrument. -- Milton.
Chord (n.) (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
Chord (n.) (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
Chord (n.) (Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
Chord (n.) (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. -- Waddell.
Accidental, Common, & Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal.
Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch.
Chord of curvature, A chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point.
Scale of chords. See Scale.
Chorded (imp. & p. p.) of Chord.
Chording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chord.
Chord (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
When Jubal struck the chorded shell. -- Dryden.
Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. -- Beecher.
Chord (v. i.) (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
Chord (n.) A straight line connecting two points on a curve.
Chord (n.) A combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
Chord (v.) Play chords on (a string instrument)
Chord (v.) Bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing [syn: harmonize, harmonise, chord].
Chorda (n.) A cord.
Chorda dorsalis. [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.
Chordal (a.) Of or pertaining to a chord. Chordamesoderm
Compare: Chordamesoderm
Chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm (n.) (Embryology) The area of the mesoderm that forms the notochord.
Chordamesoderm (n.) The area of mesoderm that forms the notochord [syn: chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm].
Chordal (a.) Relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords; "chordal assonance in modern music"; "chordal rather than contrapuntal music."
Chordata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Chordata (n.) Comprises true vertebrates and animals having a notochord [syn: Chordata, phylum Chordata].
Chordee (n.) (Med.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
Chore (n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]
Chored (imp. & p. p.) of Chore.
Choring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chore.
Chore (v. i.) To do chores. [U. S.]
Chore (n.) A choir or chorus. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Chore (n.) A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores" [syn: job, task, chore].
Chorea (n.) (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Chorea (n.) Chorea in dogs [syn: canine chorea, chorea].
Chorea (n.) Any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs
Compare: Choreus
Choreus, Choree, (n.) (Anc. Pros.) (a) A trochee.
Choreus, Choree, (n.) (Anc. Pros.) (b) A tribrach.
Choree (n.) See Choreus. Choregraphic
Choregraphic (a.) Alt. of Choregraphical.
Choregraphical (a.) Pertaining to choregraphy.
Choregraphy (n.) The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. -- also called choreography. -- Craig. [Archaic]
Choreography (n.) The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy.
Choreography (n.) The art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice.
Choreography (n.) The planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public. [informal]
Choreic (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
Chorepiscopal (a.) Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
Chorepiscopi (n. pl. ) of Chorepiscopus.
Chorepiscopus (n.) (Eccl.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district. Choreus
Choreus (n.) Alt. of Choree.
Choree (n.) (Anc. Pros.) A trochee.
Choree (n.) (Anc. Pros.) A tribrach.
Choriambs (n. pl. ) of Choriamb.
Choriamb (n.) Same as Choriambus.
Choriambic (a.) Pertaining to a choriamb.
Choriambic (n.) A choriamb.
Choriambi (n. pl. ) of Choriambus.
Choriambuses (n. pl. ) of Choriambus.
Choriambus (n.) (Anc. Pros.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
Choric (a.) Of or pertaining to a chorus.
Chorion (n.) (Anat.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
Chorion (n.) (Anat.) The true skin, or cutis.
Chorion (n.) (Bot.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
Chorion (n.) The outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals).
Chorisis (n.) (Bot.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
Chorist (n.) A singer in a choir; a chorister. [R.]
Chorister (n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. -- Dryden.
Chorister (n.) One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]
Chorister (n.) A singer in a choir.
Choristic (a.) Choric; choral. [R.]
Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
Chorographer (n.) One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." -- Sir T. Browne.
Chorographer (n.) A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
Chorographical (a.) Pertaining to chorography. -- Cho`ro*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Chorography (n.) The mapping or description of a region or district.
The chorography of their provinces. -- Sir T. Browne.
Choroid (a.) (Anat.) Resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
Choroid (n.) The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.
Choroid plexus (Anat.), One of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.
Choroid (n.) A highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye [syn: choroid, choroid coat].
Choroidal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.
Chorology (n.) (Biol.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
Its distribution or chorology. -- Huxley.
Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.
Choruses (n. pl. ) of Chorus.
Chorus (n.) (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers.
The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. -- Dryden.
Chorus (n.) (Gr. Drama) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. -- Milton.
Chorus (n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]
Chorus (n.) (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert.
Chorus (n.) (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
Chorus (n.) (Mus.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
Chorus (n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
Chorused (imp. & p. p.) of Chorus.
Chorusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chorus.
Chorus (v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. -- W. D. Howells.
Chorus (n.) Any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos."
Chorus (n.) A group of people assembled to sing together.
Chorus (n.) The part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain, chorus].
Chorus (n.) A body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: chorus, chorus line].
Chorus (n.) A company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn: chorus, Greek chorus].
Chorus (v.) Utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused."
Chorus (v.) Sing in a choir [syn: choir, chorus].
Chorus, () A distributed operating system developed at INRIA. (2006-09-20)
Choses (n. pl. ) of Chose.
Chose (n.) (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.
Chose, () property. This is a French word, signifying thing. In law, it is applied to personal property; as choses in possession, are such personal things of which one has possession; choses in action, are such as the owner has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 Bl. Com. 889, 397; 1 Chit. Pract. 99; 1 Supp. to Ves. Jr. 26, 59. Chitty defines choses in actions to be rights to receive or recover a debt, or money, or damages for breach of contract, or for a tort connected with contract, but which cannot be enforced without action, and therefore termed choses, or things in action. Com. Dig. Biens; Harr. Dig. Chose in Action Chitty's Eq. Dig. b. t. Vide 1 Ch. Pr. 140.
Chose, () It is one of the qualities of a chose in action, that, at common law, it is not assignable. 2 John. 1; 15 Mass. 388; 1 Cranch, 367. But bills of exchange and promissory notes, though choses in action, may be assigned by indorsement, when payable to order, or by delivery when payable to bearer. See Bills of Exchange.
Chose, () Bonds are assignable in Pennsylvania, and perhaps some other states, by virtue of statutory provisions.Inequity, however, all choses in action are assignable and the assignee has an equitable right to enforce the fulfilment of the obligation in the name of the assignor. 4 Mass. 511; 3 Day. 364; 1 Wheat. 236; 6 Pick. 316 9 ow. 34; 10 Mass. 316; 11 Mass. 157, n. 9 S. & R. 2441; 3 Yeates, 327; 1 Binn. 429; 5 Stew. & Port. 60; 4 Rand. 266; 7 Conn. 399; 2 Green, 510; Harp. 17; Vide, generally, Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Chose, () Rights arising ex delicto are not assignable either at law or in equity.
Chosen (p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. -- Judg. xx. 16.
Chosen (n.) One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
Chosen (n.) One who is the object of choice; who is given preference; "she was Mama's chosen."
Chosen (n.) The name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945).
Chosen (n.) An exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government" [syn: chosen, elect].
Chosen, () Spoken of warriors (Ex. 15:4; Judg. 20:16), of the Hebrew nation (Ps. 105:43; Deut. 7:7), of Jerusalem as the seat of the temple (1 Kings 11:13). Christ is the "chosen" of God (Isa. 42:1); and the apostles are "chosen" for their work (Acts 10:41). It is said with regard to those who do not profit by their opportunities that "many are called, but few are chosen" (Matt. 20:16). (See Election.)
Chouan (n.) [F.] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Chough (n.) (Zool.) 【鳥】歐洲的紅嘴山鴉 A bird of the Crow family ({Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
Cornish chough (n.) (Her.), 紅嘴山鴉 A bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.
Chough (n.) A European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage.
Compare: Quinnat
Quinnat (n.) [From the native name.] (Zool.) The California salmon ({Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance. [Written also quinnet.]
Chouicha (n.) [Native name] (Zool.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.
Chouka (n.) [Native name] (Zool.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
Compare: Jowl
Jowl (n.) The cheek; the jaw. [Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule.]
Cheek by jowl, With the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with thee cheek by jole." -- Shak. " Sits cheek by jowl." -- Dryden.
Choule (n.) [Obs.] See Jowl. -- Sir W. Scott.
Choultry (n.) See Choltry.