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Show CH L 2. 'To devour eagerly: with the opening of his mout wine meafure he drops hi of ludicrous commendation: imagine by Skinner to fignify Jufty, from cay Sax.; by others to mean a child tha would bring money at a market. Per 5. To mince; tocut into fmall pieces "They break their bones, and chop them in picces as for the pot Micah Some granaries are made with clay, mixed wit hair, chopped fraw, mulch, and fuch like Mortimer's Hufbandry By dividing of them into chapters and verfes they are fo chopped and minced, and ftand f broken and divided, that the common people tak the verfes ufually for different aphorifms Locke haps a greedy Both Jack Freeman and Ned Wil Would own the fair and chopping child The ftraight fmooth elms are good for axle-trees CHOPPING-KNIFE. 7. /. [chop and knife. A knife with which cooks mince thei meat Here comes Dametas, with a fword by his fide a foreft-bill on his neck, and a chopping-knif Sidney under his girdle If the body repercuffing be near, and yet not f Out of greedinef Cuo'rry. adj. [from chop.] Full of holes to get both, he chgps at th kospen, Dut The chopping of bargains, when a man buys no to hold but to fell again, grindeth upon the felle Bacon and the buyer 2. To put one thing in the place of another Sets up communities and fenfes "To chop and change intelligences Hydibras Affirm the Trigons chopp'd and chang'd The watry with the fiery rang'd Hudibras We go on chopping and changing our friends as well as our horfes L'Efirange bandy ; to altercate ; to return on thing or word for another Let not the council at the bar chop with th judge, nor wind himfelf into the handling of th caufe a-new, after. the judge hath ‘declared hi Bacon fentence You'll never leave off your chopping of logick till your fkin is turned over your ears for prating L'Efirange Cuor. #. /. [from the verb. 1. A piece chopped off. See CHurr Sir William Capel compounded for fixteen hun dred pounds yet Empfon would have cut anothe cbop out of him, if the king had not died. Bacon 2. A {mall piece of meat, commonly o mutton ©Old Crofs condemns all perfons to be fops "That can't regale themfelves with mutton chops 3. A crack, or cleft King's Caok Water will make wood to fwell; as 'we fee i the filling of the chops of bowls, by laying them i water Bacon €nopr-80USE. 7. [ [from chop and honfe. A mea houfe of entertainment provifion ready drefled is fold wher 1 loft my place at the chop-houfé, where ever man eats in publick a mefs of broth, or chop o meat, in filence Spectator CHO'PIN. n. /. [French. 3. A French liquid meafure, containin nearly a pint of Wimchefter You feem to underftand me Cuors. #. /. without a fingular. [corrupted probably from Craps, whic fee] to buy. 1. To purchafe, generally by way of truck to give one thing for another 3. T cracks L'Efrange 3. To light or happen upon a thing fuddenly : with zpon v, a. [ceapan, Sax clefts, o By each at once her choppy finger layin Shakcfpeare Upon her {kinny lips fhadow, and lofes the fubftance ZoCuoP Mortimer's Hufbandry boards, chopping-blocks 1. 'To do any thing with a quick and unexpefted motion, like that of 2 blow as we fay, the wind chops about, that is changes fuddenly 2. To catch with the mouth Fenton CHOPPING-BLOCK. 7. /. [chop and block. A log of wood, on which any thing i laid to be cut in pieces dugs, that her prett Shakefpeare near as to make a concurrent echo, it chopperh wit you upon the fudden Bacon's Natural Hiftory child, likely t hungr live 4. To break into chinks Zo Cuor. wv. 2 Cuo'rrING. participial adj. [In this {enfe of uncertain etymology.] An epithe frequently applied to infants, by wa breakfaft, which the fox prefently ebopped up L'Efirange I remember the cow' «chopt hands had milked 2. Aterm ufed in Scotland for a quart of Cuo'r1STER. 7. /. [from chorus _ You are for making a hafty meal, and for chopPing up your entertainment like an hungry clown Dryden Upo C/H 1. The mouth of a beaft So foon as my chops begin to walk, yours muf L'Efirange be walking too, for company 2. The mouth ofa man, ufed in contempt He ne'er thook hands, nor bid farewel to him Till he unfeam'd bhim from the nape to th' chops Shakefpeare 3. The mouth of any thing in familia language ; as of a river, of a {mith' vice Cuo'raL. adj. [from chorus, Lat. 1. Belonging to or compofing a choir o concert All founds on fret by ftring or golden wir Temper'd foft tunings intermix'd with veice Choral or unifon Milton Choral fymphonies Milton 2. Singing in a choir And choral feraphs fung the fecond day Amburft CHORD. . > [chre 1ol a fignifies a rope or flring in general, i is written cord : when its primitive fignification is preferved the 4 is retain ed. 1. The firing of a mufical inftrument Milton 2. [In geometry. A right line, whic joins the two ends of any arch of a circl 7o CHORD. «. a. [from the noun. T furnifh with ftrings or chords ; to firing ‘What paffion cannot mufick raife and quell? Jubal firuck the chorded fhell #. The choriffers the joyous anthem fing The new-born pheenix takes his wa Of airy choriffers a numerous trai Attend his progrefs The mufical voice chorifters Spenfer Dryden and accents of the aeria Ray on the Creaticy CHORO'GRAPHER. 7. /. [from yugh, region, and yedgw, todefcribe.] He tha defcribes particular regions or countries ' CHOROGRAPHICAL adj. [See Croro crarHER. Defcriptive of particula regions or countries; laying down th boundaries of countries I have added a chorographical defcription of thi terreftrial paradife. Raleigh's Hiftory of the World CHOROGRA'PHICALLY. adv [from tho rographical.] In a chorographical manner ; according to the rule of chorogra phy; in a manner defcriptive of particular regions CHORO'GRAPHY. 7. /:'\[See CHOROGRApHER.] The art or pratice of defcribing particular regions, or laying dow the limits and boundaries of particula It is lefs in its object tha provinces geography, and greater than topography Cuo'rus. 7. /. [chorus, Latin. 1. A number of fingers; aconcert The Grecian tragedy was at firft nothing but cborus of fingers; afterwards one actor was introduced Dryden Never did a more full and unfpotted chorus o human creatures join together in a hymn of devoAddifon tion In praife fo juft let every voice be join'd Pope And fill the general chorus of mankind 2. Th perfons wh are fappofed to be hold what paffes in the aéts of a tragedy and fing their fentiments between th alts -For fupply Admit me chorus to this hiftory Shakefpeare 3. The fong between the aéts of a tragedy 4. Verfes of a fong in which the com pany join the finger CuosEe. [the preter tenfe, and fometime the participle paffive, from To choofe. Our fovereign here above the reft might ftand And here be chofe again to rule the land Dryde [the participle paflive from T choofe. If king Lewis vouchfafe to furnifh u With fome few bands of chofen foldiers Shak DIl undertake to land them on our coagt CuoucH . /. [eeo, Sax. choucas, Fr. - A bird which frequents the racks by th fea fide, like a jackdaw, but bigger Hynmer In birds, kites and keftrels have a refemblanc with hawlks, crows with ravens, daws and cboygb‘ " Bacow's Natural Hiflary Tao crows the like impartial grace affords CHOULE. 7./ [commonly pronounced an jembran The praifes of the Lord in dively notes The whiles, with hollow throats [from chorda, Lat.] Cuo'r10N. 7./. [xweeiv, to contain.] Th foetus And let the roaring organs loudly pla Dryden contraction of the freenum outwar the moft part, confined to poetry And choughs and daws, and fuch republn:l'{‘slrl;j; His lift'ning brethren ftood around CuorDE'E 2. A finger in a concert., This fenfe is, fo Cuo'sen Who mov' Their ftops and chords, was feen; his volant touc Inftin& thro' all proportions, low and high Fled and purfued tranfverfe the refonant fugue Whe 1. A finger in cathedrals, ufually 3 fingey of the lower order ; a finging boy tlm enwrap th written joww/.] The crop of a bird The choule or crop, adhering unto the lower of the bill, and fo defcending by the throat, 18 bag or fachel Brown's VulgarEmu |