Choke pear () A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
Choker (n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
Choker (n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
Choke-strap (n.) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Choking (a.) That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
Choking (a.) Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
Choky Chokey (a.) Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
Choky Chokey (a.) Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion.
Cholaemaa (n.) A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
Cholagogue (a.) Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholagogue (n.) An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.
Cholate (n.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.
Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.
Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
Choledology (n.) A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.
Choleic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
Choler (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
Choler (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
Cholera (n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
Choleraic (a.) Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.
Choleric (a.) Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
Choleric (a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.
Choleric (a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.
Cholericly (adv.) In a choleric manner; angrily.
Choleriform (a.) Resembling cholera.
Cholerine (n.) The precursory symptoms of cholera.
Cholerine (n.) The first stage of epidemic cholera.
Cholerine (n.) A mild form of cholera.
Choleroid (a.) Choleriform.
Cholesteric (a.) Pertaining to cholesterin, or obtained from it; as, cholesteric acid.
Cholesterin (n.) 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.
Choliamb (n.) Alt. of Choliambic
Choliambic (n.) A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.
Cholic (a.) Alt. of Cholinic
Cholinic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.
Choline (n.) See Neurine.
Cholochrome (n.) See Bilirubin.
Cholophaein (n.) See Bilirubin.
Choltry (n.) A Hindoo caravansary.
Chomp (v. i.) To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.
Chondrification (n.) Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
Chondrify (v. t. & i.) To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.
Chondrigen (n.) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.
Chondrigenous (a.) Affording chondrin.
Chondrin (n.) 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.
Chondrite (n.) A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.
Chondritic (a.) Granular; pertaining to, or having the granular structure characteristic of, the class of meteorites called chondrites.
Chondritis (n.) An inflammation of cartilage.
Chondro- () A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.
Chondrodite (n.) A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.
Chondroganoidea (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondrogen (n.) Same as Chondrigen.
Chondrogenesis (n.) The development of cartilage.
Chondroid (a.) Resembling cartilage.
Chondrology (n.) The science which treats of cartilages.
Chondromata (pl. ) of Chondroma
Chondroma (n.) A cartilaginous tumor or growth.
Chondrometer (n.) A steelyard for weighting grain.
Chondropterygian (a.) Having a cartilaginous skeleton.
Chondropterygian (n.) One of the Chondropterygii.
Chondropterygii (n. pl.) 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.
Chondrostei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
Chondrotomy (n.) The dissection of cartilages.
Chondrule (n.) 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.
Chose (imp.) of Choose
Chosen (p. p.) of Choose
Chose () of Choose
Choosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Choose
Choose (v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
Choose (v. t.) To wish; to desire; to prefer.
Choose (v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.
Choose (v. i.) To do otherwise.
Chooser (n.) One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.
Chopped (imp. & p. p.) of Chop
Chopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chop
Chop (v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
Chop (v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
Chop (v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
Chop (v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
Chop (v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
Chop (v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
Chop (v. i.) To barter or truck.
Chop (v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
Chop (v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
Chop (v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
Chop (n.) A change; a vicissitude.
Chop (v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
Chop (n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
Chop (n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Chop (n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
Chop (n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
Chop (n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
Chop (n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
Chop (n.) A permit or clearance.
Chopboat (n.) A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels.
Chopchurch (n.) An exchanger or an exchange of benefices.
Chopfallen (a.) Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited; downcast. See Chapfallen.
Chophouse (n.) A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house.