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2. A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.

Cho`ro*graph"ic*al (?), a. Pertaining to chorography. -- Cho`ro*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Cho*rog"ra*phy (?), n. [L. chorographia, Gr. &?;; &?; place + &?; to describe.] the mapping or description of a region or district.

The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

Cho"roid (?), a. [gr. &?;; &?; chorion + &?; form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.

Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

Cho*roid"al (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.

Cho*rol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; place + -logy.] (Biol.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.

Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

Cho*rom"e*try (?), n. [Gr. &?; place + -metry.] The art of surveying a region or district.

Cho"rus (?), n.; pl. Choruses (#). [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. &?;. See Choir.]

1. (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers.

The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden.

2. (Gr. Drama) 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.

What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]

4. (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert.

5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.

6. (Mus.) 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.

7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.

Cho"rus, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chorused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.

||Chose (?), n.; pl. Choses (#). [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See Cause.] (Law) A thing; personal property.

Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. -- Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.

Chose (?), imp. & p. p. of Choose.

Cho"sen (?), p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

Cho"sen, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.

Chou"an (?), n. [F.] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.