The science which treats of cartilages.

A cartilaginous tumor or growth.

A steelyard for weighting grain.

Having a cartilaginous skeleton. One of the Chondropterygii.

A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter.

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

The dissection of cartilages.

A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

a train or a locomotive; -- a child's word.

To make a selection; to decide.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.

difficult to please, especially in details.

A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

One who bandies words or is very argumentative.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.

An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.

A customhouse where transit duties are levied.

See Chopine.

A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more.

A kind of spade.

One who, or that which, chops.

Act of cutting by strokes.

Full of cracks.

The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

a pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; -- also commonly used around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in restaurants serving oriental food.

Of or pertaining to a choragus.

A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.

Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

A stately hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation, used mostly in Protestant (especially Lutheran) churches; as, the Lutheran chorals.

A singer or composer of chorals.

In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

A cord.

Of or pertaining to a chord.

A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

the area of the mesoderm that forms the notochord.

a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers.

a genus containing two species of small New Zealand trees: weeping tree broom; endangered.

A choir or chorus.

St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

See Choreus.

a trochee. A tribrach.

Pertaining to choregraphy.

The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choreography.

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

The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy.

Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority.

A /country/ or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

Same as Choriambus.

Pertaining to a choriamb. A choriamb.

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.

Of or pertaining to a chorus.

a woman who dances in a chorus line.

a very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois.

The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. The true skin, or cutis.

The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

A singer in a choir; a chorister.

One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.

An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.

Pertaining to chorography.

the mapping or description of a region or district.

resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.

Pertaining to the choroid coat.

The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.

The art of surveying a region or district.

A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort.

To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.

imp. p. p. of Choose.

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

A cabbage.

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

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.

The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

See Jowl.

See Choltry.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.

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.

chopped pickles in mustard sauce.

A kind of mixed pickles.

To make a chowder of.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.

To grumble or mutter like a froward child.

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.

Teaching what is useful.

A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.

The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.

A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.

The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Zizyphus vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

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.

any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds.

The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.

Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.

The Christian religion.

Same as Anorthite. See Phillipsite.

The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.

To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.

Becoming to a Christian.

Christianlike.

Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity.

Without faith in Christ; unchristian.

Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc.

Christlike.

An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.

a spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern U. S. (Lycium carolinianum) having spreading branches with usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries.

The season of Christmas.

Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion.

A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

See Chrisom.

An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.

An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

A salt of chromic acid.

Relating to color, or to colors.