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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Chō'ral-ly, adv. p. 227In the manner of a chorus.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.Chôrd, v. t. p. 227To provide with musical chords or strings. Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden.Chor-dee′, n. p. 227(Med.) A painful affection of the penis, attending gonorrhœa. Dunglison.Chōre, n. p. 227A small job; the light work of a household, either within or without doors;—commonly used in the plural. [U. S.]Chōre, n. p. 227A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.Chō're-ă, n. p. 227(Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with constant twitchings and irregular movements of the voluntary muscles.Chō're-grăph'ĭc or Chō're-grăph'ĭc-al, a. p. 227Pertaining to choregraphy.Cho-rēg'ra-phy, n. p. 227The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.Chō're-pis'co-pal, a. p. 227Pertaining to the power of a suffragan or local bishop. Fell.Chō're-pĭs'co-pĭs, n. p. 227(Eccl.) A local or suffragan bishop. Hook.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.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.Chō'rī-ăm'bĭc, n. p. 227A choriamb.Chō'ri-ām'bĭc, a. p. 227Pertaining to a choriamb. Mason.Chō'rĭc, a. p. 227Of, or pertaining to, a chorus. “A choric ode.” Coleridge.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.Chō'rĭst, n. p. 227A singer in a choir.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.]Cho-rĭst'ic, a. p. 227Pertaining to a choir; choric; choral. [Rare.]Cho-rōg'ra-pher, n. p. 227One who describes or makes a map of a particular country. “The chorographers of Italy.” Browne.Chō'ro-grăph'ĭc-al, a. p. 227Pertaining to chorography.Chō'ro-grăph'ic-al-ly, adv. p. 227In a chorographical manner.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…Chō'roid, n. p. 227(Anat.) Any membrane resembling the chorion, as the second coat of the eye.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…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…Chōse, imp. & p. p. p. 227of choose.Chōṣ'ēn, p. p. p. 227of choose.Chou'an, n. p. 227One of a band of royalist insurgents on the River Loire, during the French revolution. They were mostly brigands. Brande.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.Chōule, n. p. 227See JOWL.Chōul'try, n. p. 227See CHOLTRY.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.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.Chout, n. p. 227(Com.) A fourth part of the clear revenue. [East Indies.]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…Chow'chow, n. p. 227A kind of mixed pickles.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.Chowder beer p. 227a liquor made by boiling the black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction. [Eng.]Chow'der, v. t. p. 227To make a chowder of.Chow'ery, n. p. 227A brush to keep off flies, used in the East Indies. Malcom.Chow'ter, v. t. p. 227To grumble like a frog or a froward child. [Obs.] Phillips.Choy'-rōot, n. p. 227See CHAY-ROOT.Chrē'ma-tis'ties, n. sing. p. 227The science of wealth; a branch of political economy. [See MATHEMATICS.]Chrē/o-tēch'nies, n. sing. p. 227The useful arts, especially agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [Rare.] See MATHEMATICS.Chres-tōm'a-thy, n. p. 227A selection of passages, with notes, &c., to be used in acquiring a language; as a Hebrew chrestomathy.Chrism, n. p. 227(Gr. & Rom. Cath. Churches.) Oil consecrated by the bishop, formerly used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, and extreme unction. Hook.Chris'mal, a. p. 227Pertaining to chrism. Brevint.Chris-mā'tion, n. p. 227The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.Chris'ma-to-ry, n. p. 227A vessel to hold the oil for chrism. Bale.Chrĭs'om, n. p. 228A white cloth or mantle thrown over a child when brought for baptism. [Obs.] 2. A child which died within a month after its birth, so called from the chrisom-cloth, a cloth anointed with chrism…Christ, n. p. 228THE ANOINTED;— an appellation given to the Savior of the world, and synonymous with the Hebrew MESSIAH.Christ'-crŏss-rōw', n. p. 228The alphabet;— formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. Nares.Chrĭs'ten, v. t. p. 228To give a name and apply water to, as a religious ceremony, in the name of, and according to the precept of, Christ; to baptize. 2. To give a name; to denominate. “Christen the thing what you will.”…Chrĭs'ten-dŏm, n. p. 228The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] Faith is the key of christendom. Chaucer. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more…Chrĭs'tian, n. p. 228One who professes to believe, or is assumed to believe, in the religion of Christ; especially one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. 2. One who is born in a…Chrĭs'tian, a. p. 228Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian doctrine. 2. Professing Christianity; as, a Christian people. 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone.…Chrĭs'tian, v. t. p. 228To baptize. [Obs.] Fuller.Chrĭs'tian-ĭsm, n. p. 228The Christian religion. [Obs.] Milton. 2. The nations professing Christianity; Christendom. [Obs.] Johnson.