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Chieftain

CHIEFTAIN, noun A captain, leader or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army or clan. It is most commonly used in the latter sense. The chieftains of the Highland clans in Scotland, were the principal noblemen and gentlemen.

Chieftainry

CHIEFTAINRY,

CHIEFTAINSHIP, noun Headship; captaincy; the government over a clan.

Chievance

CHIEVANCE, noun An unlawful bargain; traffick in which money is extorted.

Chieve

CHIEVE or CHIVE, verb intransitive To come to an end; to issue; to succeed.

Chilblain

CHILBLAIN, noun A blain or sore produced by cold; a tumor affecting the hands and feet, accompanied with inflammation, pain, and sometimes ulceration.

Child

CHILD, noun

1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when young. The term is applied to infants from their birth; but the time when they cease ordinarily to be so called, is not defined by custom. In strictness, a child is the shoot, issue or produce of the parents, and a person of any age, in respect to the parents, is a child

An infant.

Hagar cast the child under one of the shrubs. Genesis 21:8.

It signifies also a person of more advanced years.

Jephthas daughter was his only child Judges 11:34.

The child shall behave himself proudly. Isaiah 3:5.

A curse will be on those who corrupt the morals of their children.

The application of child to a female in opposition to a male, as in Shakspeare, is not legitimate.

2. One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child

Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child Jeremiah 1:6.

3. One young in grace. 1 John 2:1.

One who is unfixed in principles. Ephesians 4:1.

4. One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God.

5. One who is the product of another; or whose principles and morals are the product of another.

Thou child of the devil. Acts 13:10.

That which is the product or effect of something else.

This noble passion, child of integrity.

6. In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

7. The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir. 2 Chronicles 25:1.

To be with child to be pregnant. Genesis 16:11, Gen 29:36.

CHILD, verb intransitive To bring children.

Child-Bearing

CHILD-BEARING, adjective or participle present tense [See Bear.] Bearing or producing children.

CHILD-BEARING, noun The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

Childbed

CHILDBED, noun The state of a woman bringing forth a child or being in labor; parturition.

Childbirth

CHILDBIRTH, noun The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor; as the pains of childbirth

Childed

CHILDED, adjective Furnished with a child.

CHILDERMAS DAY, noun An anniversary of the church of England, held on the 28th of December, in commemoration of the children of Bethlehem slain by Herod; called also Innocents Day.

Childhood

CHILDHOOD, noun

1. The state of a child, or the time in which persons are children, including the time from birth to puberty. But in a more restricted sense, the state or time from infancy to puberty. Thus we say, infancy, childhood youth and manhood.

CHILDHOOD and youth are vanity. Ecclesiastes 11:10.

2. The properties of a child.

Childing

CHILDING, participle present tense Bearing children; producing; as childing women.

Childish

CHILDISH, adjective

1. Belonging to a child; trifling; puerile.

When I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11.

2. Pertaining to a child; as childish yeas or age; childish sports.

3. Pertaining to children; ignorant; silly; weak; as childish fear.

Childishly

CHILDISHLY, adverb In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.

Childishness

CHILDISHNESS, noun Triflingness, puerility, the state or qualities of a child, in reference to manners. But in reference to the mind, simplicity, harmlessness, weakness of intellect.

Childlike

CHILDLIKE, adjective Resembling a child or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful; as childlike obedience.

Childly

CHILDLY, adjective Like a child.

Children

CHILDREN, noun plural Of child.

Chili

CHILI, adjective

1. Cool; moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; as the chill vapors of night.

2. Shivering with cold.

My chill veins freeze with despair.

3. Cool; distant; formal; dull; not warm, animated or affectionate; as a chill reception.

4. Depressed; dispirited; dejected; discouraged.

CHILL, verb transitive

1. To cause a shivering, or shrinking of the skin; to check circulation or motion; as, to chill the blood, or the veins. The force of this word lies in expressing the shivering and shrinking caused by cold.

2. To make cold, or cool; as, the evening air chills the earth.

3. To blast with cold; to check the circulation in plants, and stop their growth.

4. To check motion, life or action; to depress; to deject; to discourage; as, to chill the gayety of the spirits.

Chiliad

CHILIAD, noun

1. A thousand; a collection or sum, containing a thousand individuals or particulars.

2. The period of a thousand years.

Chiliagon

CHILIAGON, noun A plain figure of a thousand angles and sides.

Chiliahedron

CHILIAHEDRON, noun A figure of a thousand equal sides.

Chiliarch

CHILIARCH, noun A body consisting of a thousand men.

Chiliast

CHILIAST, noun One of the sect of Millenarians.

Chilifactive

CHILIFACTIVE. [See Chylifactive.]

Chilioliter

CHILIOLITER. [See Kiloliter.]

Chiliometer

CHILIOMETER. [See Kilometer.]

Chill

CHILL, noun

1. A shivering with cold; rigors, as in an ague; the cold fit that precedes a fever; sensation of cold in an animal body; chilliness. [See Cold and Heat.]

2. A moderate degree of cold; chilliness in any body; that which gives the sensation of cold.

Chilled

CHILLED, participle passive Made cool; made to shiver; dejected.

Chilli

CHILLI, noun A Mexican plant, Guinea pepper.

Chilliness

CHILLINESS, noun

1. A sensation of shivering; rigors.

2. A moderate degree of coldness; as the chilliness of the air, which tends to cause a shivering.

Chilling

CHILLING, participle present tense Cooling; causing to shiver.

Chillness

CHILLNESS, noun Coolness; coldness; a shivering.

Chilly

CHILLY, adjective Cool; moderately cold, such as to cause shivering; as a chilly day, night, or air.

Chilogram

CHILOGRAM. [See Kilogram.]

Chimb

CHIMB, noun [See Chime.]

Chime

CHIME, noun

1. The consonant or harmonic sounds of several correspondent instruments.

Instruments that made melodious chime

2. Correspondence of sound.

Love - harmonized the chime

3. The musical sounds of bells, struck with hammers.

4. Correspondence of proportion or relation.

5. A kind of periodical music, or tune of a clock, produced by an apparatus annexed to it.

6. A set of bells which chime or ring in harmony.

CHIME, verb intransitive

1. To sound in consonance or harmony; to accord.

To make the rough recital aptly chime

2. To correspond in relation or proportion.

Father and son, husband and wife, correlative terms, do readily chime

3. To agree; to fall in with.

He often chimed in with the discourse.

4. To agree; to suit with.

5. To jingle; to clatter.

The sely tonge may wel ringe and chimbe.

CHIME, verb transitive

1. To move, strike, or cause to sound in harmony.

2. To strike or cause to sound, as a set of bells.

CHIME, noun The edge or brim of a cask or tub, formed by the ends of the staves.

Chimer

CHIMER, noun One who chimes.

Chimera

CHIMERA, noun

1. In fabulous history, a monster with three heads, that of a lion, of a goat, and of a dragon, vomiting flames. The foreparts of the body wee those of a lion, the middle was that of a goat, and the hinder parts were those of a dragon; supposed to represent a volcanic mountain in Lycia, whose top was the resort of lions, the middle, that of goats, and the foot, that of serpents. Hence,

2. In modern usage, a vain or idle fancy; a creature of the imagination, composed of contradictions or absurdities, that can have no existence except in thought.

Chimerical

CHIMERICAL, adjective Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; that has, or can have no existence except in thought.

Chimerically

CHIMERICALLY, adverb Wildly; vainly; fancifully; fantastically.

Chimical

CHIMICAL, adjective [See Chimistry.]

1. Pertaining to chimistry; as a chimical operation.

2. Resulting from the operation of the principles of bodies by decomposition, combination, etc.; as chimical changes.

3. According to the principles of chimistry; as a chimical combination.

Chimically

CHIMICALLY, adverb According to chimical principles; by chimical process or operation.

Chiminage

CHIMINAGE, noun In law, a toll for passage through a forest.

Chiming

CHIMING, participle present tense Causing to chime; sounding in accordance.

Chimist

CHIMIST, noun A person versed in chimistry; a professor of chimistry.

Chimistry

CHIMISTRY, noun chimistry is a science, the object of which is to discover the nature and properties of all bodies by analysis and synthesis.

CHIMISTRY is that science which explains the intimate mutual action of all natural bodies.

Analysis or decomposition, and synthesis or combination, are the two methods which chimistry uses to accomplish its purposes.

CHIMISTRY may be defined, the science which investigates the composition of material substances, and the permanent changes of constitution which their mutual actions produce.

CHIMISTRY may be defined, that science, the object of which is to discover and explain the changes of composition that occur among the integrant and constituent parts of different bodies.

CHIMISTRY is the science which treats of those events and changes in natural bodies, which are not accompanied by sensible motions.

CHIMISTRY is justly considered as a science, but the practical operations may be denominated an art.

Chimney

CHIMNEY, noun

1. In architecture, a body of brick or stone, erected in a building, containing a funnel or funnels, to convey smoke, and other volatile matter through the roof, from the hearth or fire-place, where fuel is burnt. This body of materials is sometimes called a stack of chimneys, especially when it contains two or more funnels, or passages.

2. A fireplace; the lower part of the body of brick or stone which confines and conveys smoke.

Chimney-Corner

CHIMNEY-CORNER, noun

1. The corner of a fire-place, or the space between the fire and the sides of the fire-place. In the Northern States of America, fire-places were formerly made six or eight feet wide, or even more, and a stool was placed by the side of the fire, as a seat for children, and this often furnished a comfortable situation for idlers. As fuel has become scarce, our fire-places are contracted, till, in many or most of our dwellings, we have no chimney-corners.

2. In a more enlarged sense, the fire-side, or a place near the fire.

Chimney-Hook

CHIMNEY-HOOK, noun A hook for holding pots and kettles over a fire.

Chimney-Money

CHIMNEY-MONEY, noun Hearth-money, a duty paid for each chimney in a house.

Chimney-Piece

CHIMNEY-PIECE, noun An ornamental piece of wood or stone set round a fire-place.

Chimney-Sweeper

CHIMNEY-SWEEPER, noun One whose occupation is to sweep and scrape chimneys, to clean them of the soot that adheres to their sides.

Chimpanzee

CHIMPANZEE, noun An animal of the ape kind, a variety of the ourang-outang.

It is now considered a distinct species.

Chin

CHIN, noun The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

Chin-Cough

CHIN-COUGH, noun A contagious disease, often epidemic among children. It increases for some weeks, is attended with a difficulty of breathing, and in its worst stage, with a degree of convulsion. From a particular noise made in coughing, it is also called hooping cough.

China

CHINA, noun A species of earthern ware made in china and so called from the country; called also china ware and porcelain. [See Porcelain.]

China-Orange

CHINA-ORANGE, noun The sweet orange, said to have been originally brought from China.

China-Root

CHINA-ROOT, noun The root of a species Smilax, brought from the East Indies, of a pale reddish color, with no smell, and very little taste.

Chinch

CHINCH, noun A genus of insects, resembling the feather-wing moths. These insects live in the flowers of plants, and wander from flower to flower, but prefer those which are sweetest.

Chine

CHINE, noun

1. The back-bone, or spine of an animal.

2. A piece of the back-bone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

3. The chime of a cask, or the ridge formed by the ends of the staves.

CHINE, verb transitive To cut through the back-bone, or into chine-pieces.

Chined

CHINED, adjective Pertaining to the back.

Chinese

CHINESE, adjective Pertaining to China.

CHINESE, noun sing. and plural A native of China; also, the language of China.

Chingle

CHINGLE, noun Gravel free from dirt. [See Shingle.]

Chink

CHINK, noun A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.

CHINK, verb intransitive To crack; to open.

CHINK, verb transitive To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK, verb transitive [See Jingle.] To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.

CHINK, verb intransitive To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.

Chinkapin

CHINKAPIN, noun The dwarf chestnut, Fagus pumila, a tree that rises eight or ten feet, with a branching shrubby stem, producing a nut.

Chinky

CHINKY, adjective Full of chinks, or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

Chinned

CHINNED, adjective Having a long chin.

Chinse

CHINSE, verb transitive In naval affairs, to thrust oakum into the seams or chinks of a ship with a chisel or point of a knife, as a temporary expedient for calking.

Chints

CHINTS, noun Cotton cloth, printed with more than two colors.

Chioppine

CHIOPPINE, noun A high shoe, formerly worn by ladies.

Chip

CHIP, CHEAP, CHIPPING, in the names of places, imply a market; from Sax. Ceapan, cypan, to buy or sell. [See Cheap.]

CHIP, noun

1. A piece of wood or other substance, separated from a body by cutting instrument, particularly by an ax. It is used also for a piece of stone separated by a chisel or other instrument, in hewing.

2. A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

CHIP, verb transitive To cut into small pieces, or chips; to diminish by cutting away a little at a time, or in small pieces; to hew.

CHIP, verb intransitive To break or fly off in small pieces, as in potters ware.

Chip-Ax

CHIP-AX, noun An ax for chipping.

Chipped

CHIPPED, participle passive Cut in chips, or small pieces; hewed.

Chipping

CHIPPING, noun

1. A chip; a piece cut off or separated by a cutting or engraving instrument; a fragment.

2. The flying or breaking off in small pieces, of the edges of potters ware, and porcelain.

Chiragrical

CHIRAGRICAL, adjective Having the gout in the hand, or subject to that disease.

Chirk

CHIRK, adjective Lively; cheerful; in god spirits; in a comfortable state.

CHIRK, verb intransitive To chirp.

Chirm

CHIRM, verb intransitive To sing as a bird.

Chirograph

CHIROGRAPH, noun

1. Anciently a deed, which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written chirograph through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter-party.

2. A fine, so called from the manner of engrossing, which is still retained in the chirographers office in England.

Chirographer

CHIROGRAPHER, noun [See Chirograph.] He that exercises or professes the art or business of writing. In England, the chirographer of fines is an officer in the common pleas, who engrosses fines acknowledged in that court, and delivers the indentures to the parties.

Chirographic

CHIROGRAPHIC,

CHIROGRAPHICAL, adjective Pertaining to chirography.

Chirographical

CHIROGRAPHICAL, a. Pertaining to chirography.

Chirographist

CHIROGRAPHIST, noun One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.

Chirography

CHIROGRAPHY, noun [See Chirograph.] The art of writing, or a writing with ones own hand.

Chirological

CHIROLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to chirology.

Chirologist

CHIROLOGIST, noun One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers.

Chirology

CHIROLOGY, noun [See Chirologist.] The art or practice of communicating thoughts by signs made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for language or discourse, much used by the deaf and dumb, and by others who communicate with them.

Chiromancer

CHIROMANCER, noun [See Chiromancy.] One who attempts to foretell future events, or to tell the fortunes and dispositions of persons, by inspecting the hands.

Chiromancy

CHIROMANCY, noun Divination by the hand; the art or practice of attempting to foretell events, or to discover the dispositions of a person, by inspecting the lines and lineaments of his hand.

Chiromantic

CHIROMANTIC, adjective Pertaining to chiromancy, or divination by the hand.

CHIROMANTIC deception.

Chirp

CHIRP, verb intransitive Cherp. To make the noise of certain small birds, or of certain insects; as a chirping lark, or cricket.

CHIRP, verb transitive To make cheerful.

CHIRP, noun A particular voice of certain birds or insects.

Chirper

CHIRPER, noun One that chirps, or is cheerful.

Chirping

CHIRPING, participle present tense Making the noise of certain small birds.

CHIRPING, noun The noise of certain small birds and insects.

Chirurgeon

CHIRURGEON, noun A surgeon; one whose profession is to heal diseases by manual operations, instruments or external applications.

Chirurgery

CHIRURGERY, noun That part of the medical art which consists in healing diseases and wounds by instruments and external applications; now written surgery.

Chirurgic

CHIRURGIC,

CHIRURGICAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to surgery, or to the art of healing diseases and wounds by manual operations, instruments or external applications.

2. Having qualities useful in external applications, for healing diseases or injuries.

It is now written surgical.

Chirurgical

CHIRURGICAL, a. 1. Pertaining to surgery, or to the art of healing diseases and wounds by manual operations, instruments or external applications.2. Having qualities useful in external applications, for healing diseases or injuries.It is now written surgical.

Chisel

CHISEL, noun An instrument of iron or steel, used in carpentry, joinery, cabinet work, masonry, sculpture, etc., either for paring, hewing or gouging. Chisels are of different sizes and shapes, fitted for particular uses.

CHISEL, verb transitive To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel

Chiseled

CHISELED, participle passive Cut or engraved with a chisel.

Chiseling

CHISELING, participle present tense Cutting with a chisel.

Chisleu

CHISLEU, noun The ninth month of the Jewish year, answering to a part of November and a part of December, in the modern division of the year.

Chistianity

CHISTIANITY, noun [See Christian, from Christ.] The religion of Christians; or the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ, and recorded by the evangelists and apostles.

Whilst politicians are disputing about monarchies, aristocracies, and republics, Christianity is alike applicable, useful and friendly to them all.

Chit

CHIT, noun

1. A shoot or sprout; the first shooting or germination of a seed or plant. Hence,

2. A child or babe, in familiar language.

3. A freckle, that is, a push.

CHIT, verb intransitive To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.

Chit-Chat

CHIT-CHAT, noun [See Chat, Chatter.] Prattle; familiar or trifling talk.

Chitterling

CHITTERLING, noun The frill to the breast of a shirt.

Chitterlings

CHITTERLINGS, noun plural The guts or bowels; sausages.

Chitty

CHITTY, adjective

1. Childish; like a babe.

2. Full of chits or warts.

Chivalrous

CHIVALROUS, adjective [See Chivalry.] Pertaining to chivalry, or knight errantry; warlike; bold; gallant.

Chivalry

CHIVALRY, noun

1. Knighthood; a military dignity, founded on the service of soldiers on horseback, called knights; a service formerly deemed more honorable than service in infantry.

2. The qualifications of a knight, as valor and dexterity in arms.

3. The system of knighthood; the privileges, characteristics or manners of knights; the practice of knight-errantry, or the heroic defense of life and honor.

4. An adventure or exploit, as of a knight.

5. The body or order of knights.

6. In English law, a tenure of lands by knights service; that is, by the condition of performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord. This was general or special; general, when the tenant held per servitium militare, without specification of the particular service; special, when the particular service was designated. When the tenant held only of the king, the tenure was regal; when he held of a common person, it was called common. This service was also grand sergeantry, as when the tenant was bound to perform service to the king in his own person; and petit sergeantry, when he was bound to yield to the king annually some small thing, as a sword or dagger. chivalry that might be held of a common person, was called escuage, scutagium, or shield service.

Court of chivalry a court formerly held before the Lord High Constable and Earl Marshal of England, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. It had jurisdiction both of civil and criminal causes, but no power to enforce its decisions by fine or imprisonment, not being a court of record. It is now nearly extinct.

Chive

CHIVE, noun A SPECIES OF SMALL ONION.

Chives

CHIVES, noun plural In botany, slender threads or filaments in the blossoms of plants. [See Stamen.]

Chldless

CHLDLESS, adjective Destitute of children or offspring. 1 Samuel 15:33.

Chlorate

CHLORATE, noun [See chlorine.] A compound of chloric acid with a salifiable base.

Chloric

CHLORIC, adjective Pertaining to chlorine, or obtained from it; as chloric acid.

Chlorid

CHLORID, noun [See Chlorine.] A compound of chlorine with a combustible body.

Chloride

CHLORIDE,

CHLORIDIC, adjective Pertaining to a chloride

Chloridic

CHLORIDIC, a. Pertaining to a chloride.

Chlorin

CHLORIN, noun Chloric gas; a new name given to what has been called oxymuriatic gas. This substance has hitherto resisted all efforts to decompose it, and as it is not known to contain oxygen, and is apparently a simple substance, it has been denominated from its color, chlorine, or chloric gas.

Chlorine

CHLORINE,

CHLORIODIC, adjective Consisting of chlorine and iodine, or obtained from them.

Chloriodic

CHLORIODIC, a. Consisting of chlorine and iodine, or obtained from them.

Chloris

CHLORIS, noun The green finch, a small bird.

Chlorite

CHLORITE, noun A mineral of a grass green color, opake, usually friable or easily pulverized, composed of little spangles, scales, prisms or shining small grains. It is classed by Kirwan with the muriatic genus. There are four subspecies, chlorite earth, common chlorite chlorite slate, and foliated chlorite

Chloro-Carbonic

CHLORO-CARBONIC,

CHLORO-CARBONOUS, adjective The terms, chloro-carbonic acid and chloro-carbonous acid, are applied, the former by Thomson, and the latter by Ure, to a compound of chlorine and carbonic oxyd, formed by exposing a mixture of the two gases to the direct solar rays. It was discovered by Dr. J. Davy, and called by him phosgene gas.

Chloro-Carbonous

CHLORO-CARBONOUS, a. The terms, chloro-carbonic acid and chloro-carbonous acid, are applied, the former by Thomson, and the latter by Ure, to a compound of chlorine and carbonic oxyd, formed by exposing a mixture of the two gases to the direct solar rays. It was discovered by Dr. J. Davy, and called by him phosgene gas.

Chloropal

CHLOROPAL, noun A newly observed mineral, of two varieties, the conchoidal and the earthy; the conchoidal is of a pistachio green color; the other has an earthy fracture, and both varieties are possessed of magnetic properties.

Chlorophane

CHLOROPHANE, noun A variety of fluor spar, from Siberia. When placed on a heated iron, it gives a beautiful emerald green light.

Chloropheite

CHLOROPHEITE, noun A rare mineral found in small nodules.

Chlorophyl

CHLOROPHYL, noun The green matter of the leaves of vegetables.

Chlorosis

CHLOROSIS, noun The green sickness; a disease of females, characterized by a pale or greenish hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, dyspepsy, etc.

Chlorotic

CHLOROTIC, adjective

1. Pertaining to chlorosis; as, chlorotic affections. Medical Repository.

2. Affected by chlorosis; as, chlorotic nuns.

Chlorous

CHLOROUS, adjective Pertaining to chlorine; as chlorous oxyd.

Choak

CHOAK, [See Choke.]

Chock

CHOCK, noun In marine language, a kind of wedge for confining a cask or other body, to prevent it from moving.

CHOCKs of the rudder, are pieces of timber kept in readiness to stop the motion of the rudder, in case of an accident, etc.

CHOCK, an encounter. [See Shock.]

Chocolate

CHOCOLATE, noun

1. A paste or cake composed of the kernel of cacao, with other ingredients, usually a little sugar, cinnamon or vanilla. The nut is first ground fine, mixed with the ingredients, and put in a mold.

2. The liquor made by dissolving chocolate in boiling water.

Chocolate-House

CHOCOLATE-HOUSE, noun A house where company many be served with chocolate.

Chocolate-Nut

CHOCOLATE-NUT. [See Cacao.]

Chode

CHODE, the old preterit of chide, which see.

Choice

CHOICE, noun

1. The act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; or the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

Ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my moth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. Acts 15:7.

2. The power of choosing; option.

Where there is force, there can be no choice

Of these alternatives we have our own choice

3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference.

I imagine Cesars apothems were collected with judgment and choice

4. The thing chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

Nor let thy conquests only be her choice

5. The best part of any thing; that which is preferable, and properly the object of choice

In the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead. Genesis 23:6.

6. The act of electing to office by vote; election.

To make choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

CHOICE, adjective

1. Worthy of being preferred; select; precious; very valuable.

My choicest hours of life are lost.

My revenue is better than choice silver. Proverbs 8:10.

2. Holding dear; preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; as, to be choice of time or of advantages.

3. Selecting with care, and due attention to preference; as, to be choice of ones company.

Choice-Drawn

CHOICE-DRAWN, adjective Selected with particular care.

Choiceless

CHOICELESS, adjective Not having the power of choosing; not free.

Choicely

CHOICELY, adverb

1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference; with exact choice; as a band of men choicely collected.

2. Valuably; excellently; preferably; curiously.

3. With great care; carefully; as a thing choicely preserved.

Choiceness

CHOICENESS, noun Valuableness; particular value or worth; as the choiceness of a plant or of wine.

Choir

CHOIR, noun

1. A collection of singers, especially in divine service, in a church.

2. Any collection of singers.

3. That part of a church appropriated for the singers, separated from the chancel and the nave. In congregational and some other churches, the singers are placed in certain seats in the galleries.

4. In nunneries, a large hall adjoining to the body of the church, separated by a grate, where the nuns sing the office.

Choir-Service

CHOIR-SERVICE, noun The service of singing performed by a choir.

Choke

CHOKE, verb transitive

1. To stop the passage of the breath, by filling the windpipe or compressing the neck. The word is used to express a temporary or partial stoppage, as to choke with dirt or smoke; or an entire stoppage that causes death; to suffocate; to strangle. Mark 5:13.

2. To stop by filling; to obstruct; to block up; as, to choke the entrance of a harbor, or any passage.

3. To hinder by obstruction or impediments; to hinder or check growth, expansion, or progress; as, to choke plants; to choke the spreading of the fruit.

Thorns choke them. Matthew 13:22. Luke 8:7.

4. To smother or suffocate, as fire.

5. To suppress or stifle; as, to choke the strong conception.

6. To offend; to cause to take an exception; as, I was choked at this word.

We observe that this word generally implies crowding, stuffing or covering. A channel is choked by stones and sand, but not by a boom.

CHOKE, verb intransitive

1. To have the wind-pipe stopped; as, cattle are apt to choke when eating potatoes.

2. To be offended; to take exceptions.

CHOKE, noun The filamentous or capillary part of the artichoke.

Choke-Cherry

CHOKE-CHERRY, noun The popular name of a species of wild cherry, remarkable for its astringent qualities.

Choke-Full

CHOKE-FULL, adjective [choke and full.] Full as possible; quite full.

Choke-Pear

CHOKE-PEAR, noun

1. A kind of pear that has a rough astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the parts of the mouth.

2. An aspersion or sarcasm by which a person is put to silence.

Choke-Weed

CHOKE-WEED, noun A plant so called.

Choked

CHOKED, participle passive Suffocated; strangled; obstructed by filling; stifled; suppressed; smothered.

Choker

CHOKER, noun One that chokes another; one that puts another to silence; that which cannot be answered.

Choky

CHOKY, adjective That tends to suffocate, or has power to suffocate.

Cholagogue

CHOLAGOGUE, noun A medicine that has the specific quality of evacuating the bile.

Choler

CHOLER, noun

1. The bile. By the superabundance of this fluid, anger was formerly supposed to be produced; or perhaps the opinion was that the bile caused the inflamed appearance of the face in anger. Hence,

2. Anger; wrath; irritation of the passions.

Cholera Morbus, a sudden evacuation of bile, both upwards and downwards.

First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Daniel 8:7

Choleric

CHOLERIC, adjective

1. Abounding with choler.

2. Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger; as a choleric man.

3. Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger; as a choleric speech.

Cholericness

CHOLERICNESS, noun Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as cholesteric acid.

Cholesterin

CHOLESTERIN, noun A name given by M. Chevreul, to the pearly or crystaline substance of human biliary calculi.

Cholesterine

CHOLESTERINE,

CHOLIAMBIC, noun A verse in poetry having an iambic foot in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

Chomer

CHOMER, noun A Hebrew measure containing the tenth part of an epha, or about six pints.

Chondrodite

CHONDRODITE, noun A mineral, called also Brucite. It occurs in grains or imperfect crystals, or in four-sided prisms with rhombic bases, truncated on the two acute lateral edges. It is translucent; and its color varies from reddish or amber yellow to grayish brown.

Choose

CHOOSE, verb transitive

1. To pick out; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more things offered; to make choice of.

The man the Lord doth choose shall be holy. Numbers 16:7.

2. To take in preference.

Let us choose to us judgment. Job 34:4.

3. To prefer; to choose for imitation; to follow.

Envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. Proverbs 3:31.

4. To elect for eternal happiness; to predestinate to life.

Many are called but few chosen. Matthew 20:1.

For his elects sake, whom he hath chosen. Mark 13:1.

5. To elect or designate to office or employment by votes or suffrages. In the United States, the people choose representatives by votes, usually by ballot.

CHOOSE, verb intransitive

1. To prefer; as, I choose to go.

2. To have the power of choice. The phrase, he cannot choose but stay, denotes that he has not the power of choice, whether to stay or not.

The verb, in these phrases, is really transitive; the following verb standing as the object, instead of a noun.

Chooser

CHOOSER, noun He that chooses he that has the power or right of choosing; an elector.

Choosing

CHOOSING, participle present tense Selecting; taking in preference; electing.

CHOOSING, noun Choice; election.

Chop

CHOP, verb transitive

1. To cut off or separate, by striking with a sharp instrument, either by a single blow or by repeated blows; as, to chop off a head; to chop wood.

2. To cut into small pieces; to mince; as, to chop meat; to chop straw.

3. To grand and mince with the teeth; to devour eagerly; with up; as, to chop up an entertainment.

4. To break or open into chinks or fissures; to crack; to chap. [See Chap.]

CHOP, verb intransitive

1. To buy, or rather to barter, truck, exchange.

2. To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; as, to chop and change our friends.

3. To bandy; to altercate; to return one word or thing for another.

Let not the council chop with the judge.

CHOP, verb intransitive To turn, vary, change or shift suddenly; as in the seamans phrase, the wind chops, or chops about. [The various senses of this verb seem to center in that of thrusting, driving, or a sudden motion or exertion of force.]

CHOP, noun

1. A piece chopped off; a small piece of meat; as a mutton chop

2. A crack or cleft. See Chap, which, with the broad sound of a, is often pronounced chap.

3. The chap; the jaw; plural The jaws; the mouth; the sides of a rivers mouth or channel. [See Chap.]

Chop-Church

CHOP-CHURCH, noun An exchange or an exchanger of benefices.

Chop-Fallen

CHOP-FALLEN, adjective Dejected; dispirited.

Chop-House

CHOP-HOUSE, noun A house where provision ready dressed is sold.

Chopin

CHOPIN, noun A liquid measure in France, containing nearly a pint Winchester measure. In Scotland, a quart of wine measure.

Chopped

CHOPPED, participle passive Cut; minced.

Chopping

CHOPPING, participle present tense Cutting; mincing; buying; bartering.

CHOPPING, adjective Stout; lusty; plump.

CHOPPING, noun

1. A high-heeled shoe, worn by ladies in Italy. [See Chioppine.]

2. A cutting; a mincing; from chop.

Chopping-Block

CHOPPING-BLOCK, noun A block on which any thing is laid to be chopped.

Chopping-Knife

CHOPPING-KNIFE, noun A knife for mincing meat.

Choppy

CHOPPY, adjective Full of clefts or cracks.

Chops

CHOPS, [See Chop.]

Choral

CHORAL, adjective

1. Belonging to or composing a choir or concert; as, choral symphonies.

2. Singing in a choir; as, choral seraphs.

Chorally

CHORALLY, adverb In the manner of a chorus.

Chord

CHORD, noun

1. The string of a musical instrument.

2. In music, the union of two or more sounds uttered at the same time, forming an entire harmony; as a third, fifth and eighth, which are perfect chords, or consonancies. The fourth and sixth are imperfect chords.

3. In geometry, a right line drawn or supposed to extend from one end of an arch of a circle to the other. Hence the chord of an arch is a right line joining the extremities of that arch.

CHORD, verb transitive To string.

Chordee

CHORDEE, noun [See Chord.] In medicine and surgery, an inflammatory or spasmodic contraction of the fraenum, attending gonorrhea and accompanied with pain.

Chore

CHORE, noun In America, this word denotes small work of a domestic kind, as distinguished from the principal work of the day. It is generally used in the plural, chores, which includes the daily or occasional business of feeding cattle and other animals, preparing fuel, sweeping the house, cleaning furniture, etc. [See Char.]

Chorepis-Copal

CHOREPIS-COPAL, adjective Pertaining to the power of a suffragan or local bishop.

Choreus

CHOREUS, noun In ancient poetry, a foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short; the trochee.

Choriamb

CHORIAMB,

CHORIAMBIC, noun A choriamb

CHORIAMBIC, adjective Pertaining to a choriamb

Choriambus

CHORIAMBUS, noun In ancient poetry, a foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; that is, a choreus or trochee and an iambus united; as, nobilitas, anxietas.

Chorion

CHORION, noun In anatomy, the exterior membrane which invests the fetus in utero.

Chorist

CHORIST, noun A singing man in a choir.

Chorister

CHORISTER, noun

1. Literally, a singer; one of a choir; a singer in a concert.

2. One who leads a choir in church music. This is the sense in the United States.

Chorographer

CHOROGRAPHER, noun [See Chorography.] A person who describes a particular region or country; or one who forms a map or maps of particular regions or countries.

Chorographical

CHOROGRAPHICAL, adjective Pertaining to chorography; descriptive of particular regions or countries; laying down or marking the bounds of particular countries.

Chorographically

CHOROGRAPHICALLY, adverb In a chorographical manner; in a manner descriptive of particular regions.

Chorography

CHOROGRAPHY, noun The art or practice of making a map of a particular region, country, or province; or of marking its limits, bounds or position. chorography differs from geography, as the description of a particular country differs from that of the whole earth; and from topography, as the description of a country differs from that of a town, city or district.

Choroid

CHOROID, noun In anatomy, a term applied to several parts of the body that resemble the chorion; as the inner membrane investing the brain, or the pia mater; the second coat of the eye; the fold of the carotid artery in the brain, in which is the pineal gland.

Chorus

CHORUS, noun

1. A number of singers; a company of persons singing in concert.

2. The persons who are supposed to behold what passes in the acts of a tragedy, and sing their sentiments between the acts.

3. The song between the acts of a tragedy.

4. Verses of a song in which the company join the singer; or the union of a company with a singer, in repeating certain couplets or verses, at certain periods in a song.

5. A musical composition of two or more parts.

6. Among the Greeks, a chorus consisted of a number of singers and dancers.

Chose

CHOSE, noun In law, property in action; a right to possession; or that which may be demanded and recovered by suit or action at law. Thus, money due on a bond or note is a chose in action; a recompense for damage done is a chose in action; the former proceeding from an express, the latter from an implied contract. A contract executed is a chose in possession; a contract executory conveys only a chose in action. A chose local is annexed to a place, as a mill or the like; a chose transitory is a thing which is movable.

CHOSE, s as z, preterit tense and p. of choose.

Chosen

CHOSEN, participle passive

1. Selected from a number; picked out; taken in preference; elected; predestinated; designated to office.

2. Select; distinguished by preference; eminent.

His chosen captains are drowned in the sea. Exodus 15:4.

Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood. 1 Peter 2:4.

Chough

CHOUGH, noun The Cornish chough is a fowl of the genus Corvus, nearly of the size of the crow, and mischievous, like the magpie. It is black, except the bill, legs and feet, which are red. It is a native of the west of England.

Couch is also applied to the jackdaw.

Choule

CHOULE. [See Jowl.]

Chouse

CHOUSE, verb transitive To cheat, trick, defraud; followed by of, in Hudibras; but in America, by out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.

CHOUSE, noun One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton.

A trick; sham; imposition.

Choused

CHOUSED, participle passive Cheated; defrauded; imposed on.

Chousing

CHOUSING, participle present tense Cheating; imposing on.

Chowder

CHOWDER, noun In New England, a dish of fish boiled with biscuit, etc. In Spanish, chode is a paste made of mild, eggs, sugar and flour. In the west of England, chowder-beer is a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing with it melasses.

CHOWDER, verb transitive To make a chowder

Chowter

CHOWTER, verb transitive To grumble like a frog or a froward child.

Chrism

CHRISM, noun Unguent; unction. In the Romish and Greek churches, oil consecrated by the bishop, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, and extreme unction. It is prepared on holy Thursday with much ceremony, and in some cases, mixed with balsam.

Chrismal

CHRISMAL, adjective Pertaining to chrism.

Chrismation

CHRISMATION, noun The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil; in baptism, by the priest; in confirmation, by the bishop. In ordination, it is usually styled unction.

Chrismatory

CHRISMATORY, noun A vessel to hold the oil for chrism.

Chrisom

CHRISOM, noun [See Chrism.] a child that dies within a month after its birth; so called from the chrisom-cloth, a linen cloth anointed with holy oil, which was formerly laid over a childs face when it was baptized. Also, the cloth itself.

Christ

CHRIST, noun THE ANOINTED; an appellation given to the Savior of the World, and synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah. It was a custom of antiquity to consecrate persons to the sacerdotal and regal offices by anointing them with oil.

Christanize

CHRISTANIZE, verb transitive To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.

Christen

CHRISTEN, verb transitive

1. To baptize, or rather to baptize and name; to initiate into the visible church of Christ by the application of water; applied to persons. And as a name is given to the person in the ceremony, hence,

2. To name; to denominate; applied to things.

Christendom

CHRISTENDOM, noun

1. The territories, countries or regions inhabited by Christians, or those who profess to believe in the Christian religion.

2. The whole body of Christians.

3. Christianity; the Christian religion; as, while christendom prevailed.

Christened

CHRISTENED, participle passive Baptized and named; initiated into Christianity.