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CHOSE, n. In law, property in action; a right to possession; or that which may b...
CHOSEN, pp. 1. Selected from a number; picked out; taken in preference; elected;...
CHOUGH, n. The Cornish chough is a fowl of the genus Corvus, nearly of the size ...
CHOULE. [See Jowl .]
CHOUSE, v.t. To cheat, trick, defraud; followed by of, in Hudibras; but in Ameri...
CHOUSED, pp. Cheated; defrauded; imposed on.
CHOUSING, ppr. Cheating; imposing on.
CHOWDER, n. In New England, a dish of fish boiled with biscuit, _c. In Spanish, ...
CHOWTER, v.t. To grumble like a frog or a froward child.
CHRISM, n. Unguent; unction. In the Romish and Greek churches, oil consecrated b...
CHRISMAL, a. Pertaining to chrism.
CHRISMATION, n. The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil; in baptism, ...
CHRISMATORY, n. A vessel to hold the oil for chrism.
CHRISOM, n. [See Chrism .] a child that dies within a month after its birth; so ...
CHRIST, n. THE ANOINTED; an appellation given to the Savior of the World, and sy...
CHRISTANIZE, v.t. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christia...