Chordee noun [ French cordé , cordée , past participle of corder to cord.] (Medicine) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

Chore noun [ The same word as char work done by the day.] A small job; in the plural , the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [ U. S.]

Chore intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Chored ; present participle & verbal noun Choring .] To do chores. [ U. S.]

Chore noun A choir or chorus. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Chorea noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... dance.] (Medicine) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

Choree noun [ French chorée .] See Choreus .

Choregraphic, Choregraphical adjective Pertaining to choregraphy.

Choregraphy noun [ GR. ... d...nce + -graphy .] The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.

Choreic adjective Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

Chorepiscopal adjective Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority.

Chorepiscopus noun ; plural Chorepiscopi . [ Latin , from Greek ...; chw^ros , chw`ra , place, country + ... bishop. Confer Bishop .] (Eccl.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

Choreus, Choree noun [ Latin choreus , Greek ..., prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; confer French chorée .] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach.

Choriamb noun ; plural Choriambs Same as Choriambus .

Choriambic adjective [ Latin choriambicus , gr. ....] Pertaining to a choriamb. -- noun A choriamb.

Choriambus noun ; plural Latin Choriambi , English Choriambuses . [ Latin choriambus , Greek ...; ... 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.

Choric adjective [ Latin choricus , Greek ....] Of or pertaining to a chorus.

I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba.
Coleridge.

Chorion noun [ New Latin , from Greek ....]

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.

2. (Botany) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

Chorisis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... separation.] (Botany) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

» In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. -- In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front of another.

Chorist noun [ French choriste .] A singer in a choir; a chorister. [ R.]

Chorister noun [ See Chorus .]
1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden.

2. One who leads a choir in church music. [ U. S.]

Choristic adjective Choric; choral. [ R.]

Chorograph noun [ Greek ... place + -graph .] An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

Chorographer noun
1. One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

2. A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.

Chorographical adjective Pertaining to chorography. -- Cho`ro*graph"ic*al*ly , adverb

Chorography noun [ Latin chorographia , Greek ...; ... place + ... to describe.] the mapping or description of a region or district.

The chorography of their provinces.
Sir T. Browne.

Choroid adjective [ gr. ...; ... chorion + ... form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- noun The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye .

Choroid plexus (Anat.) , one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

Choroidal adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.

Chorology noun [ Greek ... 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.

Its distribution or chorology .
Huxley.

Chorometry noun [ Greek ... place + -metry .] The art of surveying a region or district.

Chortle transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Chortled ; present participle & verbal noun Chor"tling ] A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles Latin Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort . [ Humorous]

O frabjous day ! Callooh ! Callay !
He chortled in his joy.

Lewis Carroll.

Chorus noun ; plural Choruses . [ Latin , a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Greek .... See Choir .]

1. (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 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.

What the lofty, grave tragedians taught
In chorus or iambic.
Milton.

3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [ Obsolete]

4. (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert.

5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

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.

7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

Chorus intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Chorused ; present participle & verbal noun Chorusing .] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.

Chose noun ; plural Choses . [ French, from Latin causa cause, reason. See Cause .] (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, 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. -- Chose in possession , a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action . -- Chose local , a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory , a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.

Chose imperfect & past participle of Choose .

Chosen past participle of Choose . Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
Judg. xx. 16.

Chosen noun One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.

Chou noun ; plural Choux . [ French, from Latin 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 cream.

3. A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's dress.

Chouan noun [ French] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

Chough noun [ Middle English choughe , kowe (and confer Middle English ca ), from Anglo-Saxon ceó ; confer also Dutch kauw , Old High German chāha ; perhaps akin to English caw . √22. Confer Caddow .] (Zoology) 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 .

Cornish chough (Her.) , a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow .

Chouicha noun [ Native name] (Zoology) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat .

Chouka noun [ Native name] (Zoology) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

Choule noun [ Obsolete] See Jowl . Sir W. Scott.

Choultry noun See Choltry .

Chouse transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Choused ; present participle & verbal noun 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.]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.
Landor.

Chouse noun
1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.

3. A swindler. B. Jonson.

Chout noun [ Mahratta chauth one fourth part.] An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [ India] J. Mill.

Chow noun [ 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 .

Chowchow adjective [ Chin.] Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

Chowchow chop , the last lighter containing the small sundry packages sent off to fill up a ship. S. W. Williams.

Chowchow (chou"chou`) noun (Com.) A kind of mixed pickles.