CHOIR
CHOIR, noun1. 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 fr...
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CHOIR-SERVICE
CHOIR-SERVICE, noun The service of singing performed by a choir.
CHOKE
CHOKE, verb transitive1. 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 c...
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, noun1. 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 wh...
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, noun1. 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...
CHOLERIC
CHOLERIC, adjective1. 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...
CHOOSE
CHOOSE, verb transitive1. 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. Num...
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 transitive1. 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...
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.