Webster's Dictionary 1913

3565

Chorometry

Cho‐rom″e‐try (?), n. [Gr. � place + -metry.] The art of surveying a region or district.

3566

Chortle

Chor″tle (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Chortled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Chor"tling (�).] A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination o...

3567

Chorus

Cho″rus (?), n.; pl.Choruses (#). [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. �. See Choir.]1. (Antiq.) A band of singers...

3568

Chorus (2)

Cho″rus, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Chorused (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Chorusing.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.

3569

Chose

‖Chose (?), n.; pl.Choses (#). [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See Cause.] (Law) A thing; personal property.Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual e...

3570

Chose (2)

Chose (?), imp. & p. p. of Choose.

3571

Chosen

Cho″sen (?), p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice.Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.Judg. xx. 16.

3572

Chosen (2)

Cho″sen, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.

3573

Chou

‖Chou (?), n.; pl. Choux (#). [F., fr. L. caulis stalk.] 1. A cabbage.2. A kind of light pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake, and with a filling, as of jelly or cr...

3574

Chouan

Chou″an (?), n. One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

3575

Chough

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. Caddow.] (Zoöl.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilu...

3576

Chouicha

‖Chou″i‐cha (?), n.(Zoöl.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

3577

Chouka

‖Chou″ka (?), n.(Zoöl.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

3578

Choule

Choule (?), n. See Jowl. Sir W. Scott.

3579

Choultry

‖Choul″try (?), n. See Choltry.

3580

Chouse

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 cheate...

3581

Chouse (2)

Chouse, n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.3. A swindler. B. Jonson.

3582

Chout

‖Chout (?), n. [Mahratta chauth one fourth part.] An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. J. Mill.

3583

Chow

Chow (?), n. [Chin chou.] 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.

3584

Chowchow

Chow″chow′ (?), a. Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).Chowchow chop, the last lighter containing the sm...

3585

Chowchow (2)

Chow″chow′ (chou″chou′), n.(Com.) A kind of mixed pickles.

3586

Chowder

Chow″der (–dẽr), n. [F. chaudière a kettle, a pot. Cf. Caldron.] 1. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.2. A seller of fish. Hal...

3587

Chowder (2)

Chow″der, v. t. To make a chowder of.

3588

Chowry

‖Chow″ry (–ry̆), n. [Hind. chaunri.] A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

3589

Chowter

Chow″ter (–tẽr), v. t. [Cf. OE. chowre, and Prov. E. chow, to grumble.] To grumble or mutter like a froward child. E. Phillips.

3590

Choy root

Choy″ root′ (choi″ ro͞ot′). See Chay root.

3591

Chrematistics

Chre′ma‐tis″tics (?), n. The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.