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2. To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
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Chop off your hand, and it to the king. Shak.
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3. To seize or devour greedily; -- with up. [Obs.]
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Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up. L'estrange.
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Chop (?), v. i. 1. To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
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2. To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
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Out of greediness to get both, he chops at the shadow, and loses the substance. L'Estrange.
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3. To interrupt; -- with in or out.
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This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in. Latimer.
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Chop, v. t. [Cf. D. koopen to buy. See , v. t., and cf. , v. i., to buy.] 1. To barter or truck.
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2. To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
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We go on chopping and changing our friends. L'Estrange.
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Coloq. To chop logic , to dispute with an affected use of logical terms; to argue sophistically.
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Chop, v. i. 1. To purchase by way of truck.
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2. (Naut.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
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3. To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
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Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.
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Chop, n. A change; a vicissitude. Marryat.
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Chop, v. t. & i. To crack. See , v. t. & i.
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Chop, n. 1. The act of chopping; a stroke.
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2. A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
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3. A crack or cleft. See .
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Chop, n. [See .] 1. A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See .
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2. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
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3. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See .
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Chop, n. [Chin. & Hind. chāp stamp, brand.]
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1. Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
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2. A permit or clearance.
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Coloq. Chop dollar , a silver dollar stamped to attest its purity. -- Coloq. chop of tea , a number of boxes of the same make and quality of leaf. -- Coloq. Chowchow chop . See under . -- Coloq. Grand chop , a ship's port clearance. S. W. Williams.
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Chopboat (?), n. [Chin. chop sort, quality.] A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.
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Chopchurch (?), n. [See to barter.] (Old Eng. Law) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]
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Chopfallen (?), a. Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See .
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Chophouse (?), n. A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.
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The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving.
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Chophouse, n. [See quality.] A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] S. W. Williams.
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Chopin (?), n. [F. chopine, fr. G. schoppen.] A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
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Chopin, n. See .
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Chopine (?), n. [Cf. OF. chapin, escapin, Sp. chapin, Pg. chapim.] 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.]
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Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.
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Chop-logic (?), n. One who bandies words or is very argumentative. [Jocular] Shak.
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Chopness (?), n. A kind of spade. [Eng.]
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Chopper (?), n. One who, or that which, chops.
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Chopping (?), a. [Cf. .] Stout or plump; large. [Obs.] Fenton.
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Chopping, a. [See to barter.] Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
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Chopping, n. Act of cutting by strokes.
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Coloq. Chopping block , a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Coloq. 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.
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Choppy (?), a. [Cf. .] 1. Full of cracks. “Choppy finger.” Shak.
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2. [Cf. a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
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Chops (chŏps), n. pl. [See a jaw.] 1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
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2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.
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chopsticks (chŏpstĭks), n. chopstick (chŏpstĭk), 1. 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.
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{ Chop suey or Chop sooy } (?). [Chin. (Cantonese) shap sui odds and ends, fr. shap for sap to enter the mouth + sui small bits pounded fine.] A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]
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Choragic (?), a. [Gr. �, �.] Of or pertaining to a choragus.
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Coloq. 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.
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Choragus (?), n.; pl. Choragi (#). [L., fr. Gr. �, �; � chorus + � to lead.] (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.
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Choral (?), a. [LL. choralis, fr. L. chorus. See .] Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
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Coloq. Choral service , a service of song.
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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.]
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Choralist (?), n. A singer or composer of chorals.
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Chorally, adv. In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
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Chord (kôrd), n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. chordh. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is written cord. See .] 1. The string of a musical instrument. Milton.
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2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
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3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
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4. (Anat.) A cord. See , n., 4.
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5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell.
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Coloq. Accidental, Common, and Vocal Coloq. chords . See under , , and . -- Coloq. Chord of an arch . See Illust. of . -- Coloq. Chord of curvature , a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Coloq. Scale of chords . See .
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Chord, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Chording.] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
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When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden.
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Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.
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Chord, v. i. (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
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Chorda (?), n. [NL., fr. L. chorda. See .] (Anat.) A cord.
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Coloq. Chorda dorsalis (�). [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See .
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Chordal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a chord.
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chordamesoderm, chordomesoderm n. (Embryology) the area of the mesoderm that forms the notochord.
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Chordata (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. chorda cord.] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
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Chordee (?), n. [F. cordé, cordée, p. p. of corder to cord.] (Med.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
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chordophone n. (Music) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers.
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Chordospartium n. a genus containing two species of small New Zealand trees: weeping tree broom; endangered.
Syn. -- genus Chordospartium.
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Chore (chōr), n. [The same word as char work done by the day.] A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]
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Chore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choring.] To do chores. [U. S.]
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Chore (?), n. A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Chorea (?). n. [NL., fr. Gr. � dance.] (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
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Choree (?), n. [F. chorée.] See .
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{ Choregraphic (?), Choregraphical (?), } a. Pertaining to choregraphy.
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Choregraphy (?), n. [Gr. � dance + -graphy.] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choreography. Craig. [Archaic]
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Choreic (?), a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
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Choreography (?), n. [Gr. � dance + -graphy.] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy.
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2. 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.
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3. the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public. [informal]
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Chorepiscopal (?), a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority.
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Chorepiscopus (?), n.; pl. Chorepiscopi (#). [L., fr. Gr. �; chw^ros, chwra, place, country + � bishop. Cf. .] (Eccl.) A “country” or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
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Choreus (?), Choree (�), n. [L. choreus, Gr. �, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorée.] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach.
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Choriamb (?), n.; pl. Choriambs (�). Same as .
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Choriambic (?), a. [L. choriambicus, gr. �.] Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n. A choriamb.
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Choriambus (?), n.; pl. L. Choriambi (#), E. Choriambuses (#). [L. choriambus, Gr. �; � a choreus + � iambus.] (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.
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Choric (?), a. [L. choricus, Gr. �.] Of or pertaining to a chorus.
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I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba. Coleridge.
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chorine n. a woman who dances in a chorus line.
Syn. -- chorus girl, showgirl.
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chorioallantois n. a very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.
Syn. -- chorioallantoic membrane.
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Chorion (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. (b) The true skin, or cutis.
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2. (Bot.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
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Chorisis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � separation.] (Bot.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
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☞ In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. -- In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front of another.
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Chorist (?), n. [F. choriste.] A singer in a choir; a chorister. [R.]
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Chorister (?), n. [See .] 1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden.
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2. One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]
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Choristic (?), a. Choric; choral. [R.]
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Chorograph (?), n. [Gr. � place + -graph.] An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
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Chorographer (?), n. 1. One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. “The chorographers of Italy.” Sir T. Browne.
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2. A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
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Chorographical (?), a. Pertaining to chorography. -- Chorographically, adv.
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Chorography (?), n. [L. chorographia, Gr. �; � place + � to describe.] the mapping or description of a region or district.
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The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.
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Choroid (?), a. [gr. �; � chorion + e'i^dos form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See .
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Coloq. Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.
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Choroidal (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.
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Chorology (?), n. [Gr. � place + -logy.] (Biol.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
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Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.
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Chorometry (?), n. [Gr. � place + -metry.] The art of surveying a region or district.
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Chortle (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Chortled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chortling (�).] A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay !
He chortled in his joy. Lewis Carroll.
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Chorus (?), n.; pl. Choruses (#). [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. �. See .]
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1. (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers.
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The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden.
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2. (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.
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What the lofty, grave tragedians taught
In chorus or iambic. Milton.
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3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]
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4. (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert.
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5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
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6. (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.
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7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
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Chorus, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chorused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.
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Chose (?), n.; pl. Choses (#). [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See .] (Law) A thing; personal property.
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Coloq. 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. -- Coloq. Chose in possession , a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Coloq. Chose local , a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Coloq. Chose transitory , a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.
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Chose (?), imp. & p. p. of .
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Chosen (?), p. p. of . Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
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Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.
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Chosen, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
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Chou (?), n.; pl. Choux (#). [F., fr. L. caulis stalk.] 1. A cabbage.
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2. A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cream.
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3. A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.
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Chouan (?), n. [F.] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
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Chough (?), n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ceó; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. chāha; perh. akin to E. caw. √22. Cf. .] (Zoöl.) 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.
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Coloq. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.
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Chouicha (?), n. [Native name] (Zoöl.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See .
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Chouka (?), n. [Native name] (Zoöl.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
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Choule (?), n. [Obs.] See . Sir W. Scott.
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Choultry (?), n. See .
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Chouse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] [From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4,000.] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]
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The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.
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Chouse, n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.
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2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.
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3. A swindler. B. Jonson.
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Chout (?), n. [Mahratta chauth one fourth part.] An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.
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Chow (?), n. [Chin. chou.] 1. A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.
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2. a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; -- same as , n..
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Chowchow (chouchou), a. [Chin.] Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).
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chow-chow (chouchou), n. 1. chopped pickles in mustard sauce.
Syn. -- chowchow.
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2. a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger.
Syn. -- chowchow.
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3. a breed of thick-coated medium-sized dogs with fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in north China.
Syn. -- chow, chow chow.
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