| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| choice | noun | Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election., The power or opportunity of choosing; option., Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination., A sufficient number to choose among., The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection., The best part; that which is preferable., Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable., Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; — used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money., Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. |
| choked | imp. & past participle | of Choke |
| choker | noun | One who, or that which, chokes., A stiff wide cravat; a stock. |
| choler | noun | The bile; — formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility., Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. |
| cholic | adjective | Alt. of Cholinic |
| chosen | past participle | of Choose, Selected from a number; picked out; choice., One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor. |
| choose | verb 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., To wish; to desire; to prefer., To make a selection; to decide., To do otherwise. |
| chopin | noun | A liquid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart., See Chopine. |
| choppy | adjective | Full of cracks., Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea. |
| choral | adjective | Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony., A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. |
| chorda | noun | A cord. |
| chored | imp. & past participle | of Chore |
| chorea | noun | St. Vitus’s dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. |
| choree | noun | See Choreus., a trochee., A tribrach. |
| choric | adjective | Of or pertaining to a chorus. |
| chorus | noun | A band of singers and dancers., 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., An interpreter in a dumb show or play., A company of singers singing in concert., A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices., 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., The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls., To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. |
| choses | plural | of Chose |
| chouan | noun | One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution. |
| chough | noun | 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. |
| chouka | noun | The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara. |
| choule | noun | See Jowl. |
| chouse | verb t. | To cheat, trick, defraud; — followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money., One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull., A trick; sham; imposition., A swindler. |
| chowry | noun | A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. |