Part 225

Chopping block, a solid block of wood on which butchers and others chop meat, etc. -- Chopping knife, a knife for chopping or mincing meat, vegetables, etc.; -- usually with a handle at the back of the blade instead of at the end.

Chop"py (?), a. [Cf. Chappy.] 1. Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." Shak.

2. [Cf. Chop a change.] Rough, with short, tumultuous waves; as, a choppy sea.

Chops (ch&obreve;ps), n. pl. [See Chop a jaw.] 1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

Chop"stick" (ch&obreve;p"st&ibreve;k`), n. One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

Cho*rag"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;.] Of or pertaining to a choragus.

Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

||Cho*ra"gus (?), n.; pl. Choragi (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;; &?; chorus + &?; to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) 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.

Cho"ral (?), a. [LL. choralis, fr. L. chorus. See Chorus.] Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

Choral service, a service of song.

Cho"ral, n. (Mus.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written chorale.]

Cho"ral*ist (?), n. A singer or composer of chorals.

Cho"ral*ly, adv. In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

Chord (k˘rd), n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. chordh`. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is written cord. See Cord.] 1. The string of a musical instrument. Milton.

2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

4. (Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell.

Accidental, Common, ∧ Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.

Chord, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Chording.] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden.

Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

Chord, v. i. (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

||Chor"da (?), n. [NL., fr. L. chorda. See Chord.] (Anat.) A cord.

||Chorda dorsalis (&?;). [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.

Chor"dal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a chord.

||Chor*da"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. chorda cord.] (Zo÷l.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.