the old imp. of chide. See Chide.

See Cunner.

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

Making choices; fickle.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

a boy who sings in a choir.

the musical director of a choir.

A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

To provide with a chokebore.

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

A watchman; an officer of customs or police.

One who, or that which, chokes.

Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

A station, as for collection of customs, for palanquin bearers, police, etc.

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.

A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

The gall bladder.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.

In a choleric manner; angrily.

Resembling cholera.

The precursory symptoms of cholera. The first stage of epidemic cholera. A mild form of cholera.

Choleriform.

Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.

A white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

See Neurine.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.

See Bilirubin.

See Bilirubin.

A Hindoo caravansary.

Stoppage; cessation (of labor).

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

a fish in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified; a cartilaginous fish.

the class of fishes comprising the cartilaginous fishes, which includes the sharks.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.

The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

Affording chondrin.

A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin. See also chondroitin sulfate.

A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.

An inflammation of cartilage.

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.

Same as Chondrigen.

The development of cartilage.

Resembling cartilage.

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.