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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Chŏp'-house, n.p. 227A house where chops, &c., are sold; an eating-house of a lower class. “The freedom of a chop-house.” W. Irving. 2. A custom-house where transient duties are levied. [China.] S. W. Williams.
  2. Chŏp'in, n.p. 227A liquid measure used before the adoption of the present system of weights and measures; it contained about half an English pint; sometimes used also as a dry measure. [France.] 2. A measure…
  3. Chŏp'ness, n.p. 227A kind of spade.
  4. Chŏp'per, n.p. 227One who, or that which, chops.
  5. Chŏp'ping, a.p. 227Stout or plump; large. 2. Shifting or changing suddenly; coming from different directions. “A short, chopping sea.” Cook.
  6. Chŏp'ping, n.p. 227A high-heeled shoe, formerly worn by ladies; a chopin. 2. A cutting; a mincing.
  7. Chŏp'ping-blŏck, n.p. 227A block on which any thing is laid to be chopped.
  8. Chŏp'ping-knife, n.p. 227A knife for chopping or mincing meat.
  9. Chŏp'py, a.p. 227Full of clefts or cracks. Shak.
  10. Chŏps, n. pl.p. 227See CHOP, n., No. 4.
  11. Chōp'stick, n.p. 227One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, &c., held by the Chinese between the thumb and fingers, and used to convey food to the mouth.
  12. Cho-rāg'ic, a.p. 227Pertaining, or belonging to, or in honor of, a choragus; as, the choragic monument of Lysicrates, at Athens.
  13. Cho-rŭ'gus, n.p. 227(Gr. Antiq.) One who superintended a musical or theatrical entertainment, and provided a chorus at his own expense.
  14. Chō'ral, a.p. 227Belonging to a choir; sung in chorus; as, choral symphonies.
  15. Chō'ral, n.p. 227(Mus.) A hymn-tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation.
  16. Chō'ral-ist, n.p. 227A member of a choir.
  17. Chō'ral-ly, adv.p. 227In the manner of a chorus.
  18. Chōrd, n.p. 227The string of a musical instrument. Milton. 2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, and in harmony. 3. (Geom.) A right line, uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle.
  19. Chôrd, v. t.p. 227To provide with musical chords or strings. Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden.
  20. Chor-dee′, n.p. 227(Med.) A painful affection of the penis, attending gonorrhœa. Dunglison.
  21. Chōre, n.p. 227A small job; the light work of a household, either within or without doors;—commonly used in the plural. [U. S.]
  22. Chōre, n.p. 227A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  23. Chō're-ă, n.p. 227(Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with constant twitchings and irregular movements of the voluntary muscles.
  24. Chō're-grăph'ĭc or Chō're-grăph'ĭc-al, a.p. 227Pertaining to choregraphy.
  25. Cho-rēg'ra-phy, n.p. 227The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.
  26. Chō're-pis'co-pal, a.p. 227Pertaining to the power of a suffragan or local bishop. Fell.
  27. Chō're-pĭs'co-pĭs, n.p. 227(Eccl.) A local or suffragan bishop. Hook.
  28. Cho-rē'us or Cho-ree', n.p. 227(Anc. Pros.) (a.) A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short; the trochee. (b.) A tribrach, or foot of three short syllables.
  29. Chō'rī-ămb or Chō'rī-ăm'bus, n.p. 227(Anc. Pros.) 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.
  30. Chō'rī-ăm'bĭc, n.p. 227A choriamb.
  31. Chō'ri-ām'bĭc, a.p. 227Pertaining to a choriamb. Mason.
  32. Chō'rĭc, a.p. 227Of, or pertaining to, a chorus. “A choric ode.” Coleridge.
  33. Chō'rī-on, n.p. 227(Anat.) The exterior membrane which invests the fetus in the womb. 2. (Bot.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
  34. Chō'rĭst, n.p. 227A singer in a choir.
  35. Chōr′ĭs-ter, n.p. 227One of a choir; a singer in a concert. Dryden. 2. One who leads a choir in church music. [This is the sense in the United States.]
  36. Cho-rĭst'ic, a.p. 227Pertaining to a choir; choric; choral. [Rare.]
  37. Cho-rōg'ra-pher, n.p. 227One who describes or makes a map of a particular country. “The chorographers of Italy.” Browne.
  38. Chō'ro-grăph'ĭc-al, a.p. 227Pertaining to chorography.
  39. Chō'ro-grăph'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 227In a chorographical manner.
  40. Cho-rŏg'ra-phy, n.p. 227The art or practice of making a map or description of a particular region or country, in distinction from topography, which is concerned with minute details; and from geography, which properly refers…
  41. Chō'roid, n.p. 227(Anat.) Any membrane resembling the chorion, as the second coat of the eye.
  42. Chō'rus, n.p. 227(Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers. The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden. 2. (Gr. Drama.) A company of persons who are supposed to behold what passes in the…
  43. Chōse, n.p. 227(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; a personal right to…
  44. Chōse, imp. & p. p.p. 227of choose.
  45. Chōṣ'ēn, p. p.p. 227of choose.
  46. Chou'an, n.p. 227One of a band of royalist insurgents on the River Loire, during the French revolution. They were mostly brigands. Brande.
  47. Chough, n.p. 227(Zoöl.) A bird of the crow family, and genus Pyrrhocorax. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, and curved bill. Baird.
  48. Chōule, n.p. 227See JOWL.
  49. Chōul'try, n.p. 227See CHOLTRY.
  50. Chouse, v. t.p. 227To cheat, trick, defraud;—followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Low.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.
  51. Chouse, n.p. 227One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. “Sillier than a sottish chouse.” Hudibras. 2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.
  52. Chout, n.p. 227(Com.) A fourth part of the clear revenue. [East Indies.]
  53. Chow'chow, a.p. 227Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chow-chow sweetmeats, preserved fruits of various kinds put together. Chowchow chop, the last lighter containing the small sundry package…
  54. Chow'chow, n.p. 227A kind of mixed pickles.
  55. Chow'der, n.p. 227(Cookery.) A dish made of fresh fish, pork, biscuit, onions, &c., stewed together. 2. A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
  56. Chowder beerp. 227a liquor made by boiling the black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction. [Eng.]
  57. Chow'der, v. t.p. 227To make a chowder of.
  58. Chow'ery, n.p. 227A brush to keep off flies, used in the East Indies. Malcom.
  59. Chow'ter, v. t.p. 227To grumble like a frog or a froward child. [Obs.] Phillips.
  60. Choy'-rōot, n.p. 227See CHAY-ROOT.