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Chor*dee" (?), n. [F. cordÚ, cordÚe, p. p. of corder to cord.] (Med.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

Chore (?), n. [The same word as char work done by the day.] A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

Chore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choring.] To do chores. [U. S.]

Chore (?), n. A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

||Cho*re"a (?). n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; dance.] (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

Cho*ree" (?), n. [F. chorÚe.] See Choreus.

{ Cho`re*graph"ic (?), Cho`re*graph"ic*al (?), } a. Pertaining to choregraphy.

Cho*reg"ra*phy (?), n. [GR. &?; d&?;nce + -graphy.] The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.

Cho*re"ic (?), a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

Cho`re*pis"co*pal (?), a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority.

||Cho`re*pis"co*pus (?), n.; pl. Chorepiscopi (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &?; bishop. Cf. Bishop.] (Eccl.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

||Cho*re"us (?), Cho*ree" (&?;), n. [L. choreus, Gr. &?;, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorÚe.] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach.

Cho"ri*amb (?), n.; pl. Choriambs (&?;). Same as Choriambus.

Cho`ri*am"bic (?), a. [L. choriambicus, gr. &?;.] Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n. A choriamb.

Cho`ri*am"bus (?), n.; pl. L. Choriambi (#), E. Choriambuses (#). [L. choriambus, Gr. &?;; &?; a choreus + &?; iambus.] (Anc. Pros.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ⌣ ⌣ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

Cho"ric (?), a. [L. choricus, Gr. &?;.] Of or pertaining to a chorus.

I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba. Coleridge.

||Cho"ri*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.]

1. (Anat.) (a) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. (b) The true skin, or cutis.

2. (Bot.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

||Cho"ri*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; separation.] (Bot.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

&fist; In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. -- In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front of another.

Cho"rist (?), n. [F. choriste.] A singer in a choir; a chorister. [R.]

Chor"is*ter (?), n. [See Chorus.] 1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden.

2. One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]

Cho*ris"tic (?), a. Choric; choral. [R.]

Cho"ro*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; place + -graph.] An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

Cho*rog"ra*pher (?), n. 1. One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.