Chorography Cho·rog"ra·phy 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 Cho"roid 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 Cho·roid"al adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.
Chorology Cho·rol"o·gy 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 Cho·rom"e·try noun [ Greek ... place +
-metry .]
The art of surveying a region or district.
Chortle Chor"tle 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 Cho"rus 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 Cho"rus intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Chorused ;
present participle & verbal noun Chorusing .]
To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.
Chose 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 Chose imperfect & past participle of Choose .
Chosen Cho"sen past participle of
Choose .
Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
Judg. xx. 16.
Chosen Cho"sen noun One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
Chou 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 Chou"an noun [ French]
One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Chough 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 Chou"i·cha noun [ Native name]
(Zoology) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat .
Chouka Chou"ka noun [ Native name]
(Zoology) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
Choule Choule noun [ Obsolete]
See Jowl . Sir W. Scott.
Choultry Choul"try noun See Choltry .
Chouse 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 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 Chout noun [ Mahratta
chauth one fourth part.]
An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [ India]
J. Mill.
Chow 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 Chow"chow` 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 Chow"chow` (chou"chou`)
noun (Com.) A kind of mixed pickles.
Chowder Chow"der (-d&etl;r)
noun [ French
chaudière a kettle, a pot. Confer
Caldron .]
1. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together. 2. A seller of fish. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell. Chowder beer ,
a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.
Chowder Chow"der transitive verb To make a chowder of.
Chowry Chow"ry (-rȳ)
noun [ Hind.
chaunri .]
A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.
Chowter Chow"ter (-tẽr)
transitive verb [ Confer Middle English
chowre , and Prov. English
chow , to grumble.]
To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [ Obsolete]
E. Phillips.
Choy root Choy" root` (choi" rōt`). See Chay root .
Chrematistics Chre`ma·tis"tics noun [ Greek ... 9sc. ...) the art of traffic, from ... goods, money, from ... to use.]
The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
Chreotechnics Chre`o·tech"nics noun [ Greek ... useful + ... art.]
The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [ R.]
Chrestomathic Chres`to·math"ic adjective Teaching what is useful. "A
chrestomathic school."
Southey.
Chrestomathy Chres·tom"a·thy noun [ Greek ...; ... useful + ..., ..., to learn.]
A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy .
Chrism Chrism noun [ Middle English
crisme , from Anglo-Saxon
crisma ; also Middle English
creme , from Old French
cresme , like the Anglo-Saxon word from Late Latin
chrisma , from Greek ..., from ... to anoint; perhaps akin to Latin
friare ,
fricare , to rub, Sanskrit
gharsh , English
friable ,
friction . Confer
Chrisom .]
(Gr. & R. C. Church...s) 1. Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc. 2. The same as Chrisom .
Chrismal Chris"mal adjective [ Late Latin
chrismalis .]
Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
Chrismation Chris·ma"tion noun [ Late Latin
chrismatio .]
The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil. Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism.
Jer. Taylor.
Chrismatory Chris"ma·to·ry noun [ Late Latin
chrismatorium .]
A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.
Chrisom Chris"om noun [ See
Chrism .]
1. A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [ Obsolete]
2. A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [ Obsolete]
Blount.
Christ Christ noun [ Latin
Christus , Greek ..., from ... anointed, from
chri`ein to anoint. See
Chrism .]
The Anointed ; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah .
Christ's-thorn Christ's-thorn` noun (Botany) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus , Zizyphus Spina-Christi , and Z. vulgaris . The last bears the fruit called jujube , and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.
Christcross Christ"cross` noun 1. The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon.
Old Play. Nares.
2. The beginning and the ending. [ Obsolete]
Quarles.
Christcross-row Christ"cross-row` The 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. From infant conning of the Christcross- row .
Wordsworth.
Christen Chris"ten transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Christened ;
present participle & verbal noun Christening .] [ Anglo-Saxon
cristnian to make a Christian, from
cristen a Christian.]
1. To baptize and give a Christian name to. 2. To give a name; to denominate. "
Christen the thing what you will."
Bp. Burnet. 3. To Christianize. [ Obsolete]
Jer. Taylor. 4. To use for the first time. [ Colloq.]
Christendom Chris"ten·dom noun [ Anglo-Saxon
cristend...m ;
cristen a Christian +
-dom .]
1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [ Obsolete]
Shak. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [ Obsolete]
Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms .
Shak.
3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom .
Milton
A wide and still widening Christendom .
Coleridge.
4. The whole body of Christians. Hooker.
Christian Chris"tian noun [ Latin
christianus , Greek ...; confer Anglo-Saxon
cristen . See
Christ .]
1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
Acts xi. 26.
2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. 3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ , and Campbellites . (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection ) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice. » In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, krīs"ch
a noun
Christian Chris"tian adjective 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone. 4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art.
Tennyson.
Christian Commission .
See under Commission . --
Christian court .
Same as Ecclesiastical court . --
Christian era ,
the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. --
Christian name ,
the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.
Christian Chris"tian adjective --
Christian Endeavor, Young People's Society of .
In various Protestant churches, a society of young people organized in each individual church to do Christian work; also, the whole body of such organizations, which are united in a corporation called the United Society of Christian Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society was founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E. Clark, a Congregational minister.
Christian Era Christian Era The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus (died about 540), who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754, which year he counted as 1 a.d. This date for Christ's birth is now generally thought to be about four years too late.
Christian Science Christian Science A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases its teaching on the Scriptures as understood by its adherents.
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