Chophouse (n.) A customhouse where transit duties are levied.
Chopin (n.) A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.
Chopin (n.) See Chopine.
Chopine (n.) 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.
Chop-logic (n.) One who bandies words or is very argumentative.
Chopness (n.) A kind of spade.
Chopper (n.) One who, or that which, chops.
Chopping (a.) Stout or plump; large.
Chopping (a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
Chopping (n.) Act of cutting by strokes.
Choppy (a.) Full of cracks.
Choppy (a.) Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.
Chops (n. pl.) The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
Chops (n. pl.) The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.
Chopstick (n.) One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
Choragic (a.) Of or pertaining to a choragus.
Choragi (pl. ) of Choragus
Choragus (n.) 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.
Choral (a.) Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.
Choral (n.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals.
Choralist (n.) A singer or composer of chorals.
Chorally (adv.) In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
Chord (n.) The string of a musical instrument.
Chord (n.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
Chord (n.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
Chord (n.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
Chord (n.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
Chorded (imp. & p. p.) of Chord
Chording (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chord
Chord (v. t.) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
Chord (v. i.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
Chorda (n.) A cord.
Chordal (a.) Of or pertaining to a chord.
Chordata (n. pl.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Chordee (n.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
Chore (n.) A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
Chored (imp. & p. p.) of Chore
Choring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chore
Chore (v. i.) To do chores.
Chore (n.) A choir or chorus.
Chorea (n.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Choree (n.) See Choreus.
Choregraphic (a.) Alt. of Choregraphical
Choregraphical (a.) Pertaining to choregraphy.
Choregraphy (n.) The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes.
Choreic (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
Chorepiscopal (a.) Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.
Chorepiscopi (pl. ) of Chorepiscopus
Chorepiscopus (n.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
Choreus (n.) Alt. of Choree
Choree (n.) a trochee.
Choree (n.) A tribrach.
Choriambs (pl. ) of Choriamb
Choriamb (n.) Same as Choriambus.
Choriambic (a.) Pertaining to a choriamb.
Choriambic (n.) A choriamb.
Choriambi (pl. ) of Choriambus
Choriambuses (pl. ) of Choriambus
Choriambus (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to a chorus.
Chorion (n.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.
Chorion (n.) The true skin, or cutis.
Chorion (n.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
Chorisis (n.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
Chorist (n.) A singer in a choir; a chorister.
Chorister (n.) One of a choir; a singer in a chorus.
Chorister (n.) One who leads a choir in church music.
Choristic (a.) Choric; choral.
Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.
Chorographer (n.) One who describes or makes a map of a district or region.
Chorographer (n.) A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.
Chorographical (a.) Pertaining to chorography.
Chorography (n.) the mapping or description of a region or district.
Choroid (a.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball.
Choroid (n.) The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.
Choroidal (a.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.
Chorology (n.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.
Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.
Choruses (pl. ) of Chorus
Chorus (n.) A band of singers and dancers.
Chorus (n.) 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.
Chorus (n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
Chorus (n.) A company of singers singing in concert.
Chorus (n.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
Chorus (n.) 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.
Chorus (n.) The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
Chorused (imp. & p. p.) of Chorus
Chorusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chorus
Chorus (v. i.) To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.
Choses (pl. ) of Chose
Chose (n.) A thing; personal property.
Chose () imp. & p. p. of Choose.
Chosen (p. p.) Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Chosen (n.) One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
Chouan (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Chough (n.) 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.
Chouicha (n.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.
Chouka (n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
Choule (n.) See Jowl.
Choultry (n.) See Choltry.