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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Gr. Drama)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In <b>chorus</b> or iambic. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An interpreter in a dumb show or play.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A company of singers singing in concert.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; <as>as, a <ex>Chorus</ex> of shouts and catcalls</as>.</def>

<h1>Chorus</h1> <Xpage=252>

<hw>Cho"rus</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Chorused</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Chorusing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously.</def>

<i>W. D. Howells.</i>

<h1>Chose</h1> <Xpage=252>

<hw>Chose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Choses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>causa</ets> cause, reason. See <er>Cause</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A thing; personal property.</def>

<cs><col>Chose in action</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Chose in possession</col>, <cd>a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing <i>in action<i>.</cd> -- <col>Chose local</col>, <cd>a thing annexed to a place, as a mill.</cd> -- <col>Chose transitory</col>, <cd>a thing which is movable.</cd>

<i>Cowell. Blount.</i> </cs>

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<hw>Chose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> of <er>Choose</er>.</def>

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<hw>Cho"sen</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <mord>of <er>Choose</er></mord>. <def>Selected from a number; picked out; choice.</def>

<blockquote>Seven hundred <b>chosen</b> men left-handed. <i>Judg. xx. 16.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Chosen</h1> <Xpage=252>

<hw>Cho"sen</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.</def>

<h1>Chouan</h1> <Xpage=252>

<hw>Chou"an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.</def>

<h1>Chough</h1> <Xpage=252>

<hw>Chough</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>choughe</ets>, <ets>kowe</ets> (and cf. OE. <ets>ca</ets>), fr. AS. <ets>ce\'a2</ets>; cf. also D. <ets>kauw</ets>, OHG. <ets>ch\'beha</ets>; perh. akin to E. <ets>caw</ets>. \'fb22. Cf. <er>Caddow</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A bird of the Crow family (<spn>Fregilus graculus</spn>) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called <altname>chauk</altname>, <altname>chauk-daw</altname>, <altname>chocard</altname>, <altname>Cornish chough</altname>, <altname>red-legged crow</altname>. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the <altname>Alpine chough</altname>.</def>

<cs><col>Cornish chough</col> <fld>(Her.)</fld>, <cd>a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also <altname>aylet</altname> and <altname>sea swallow</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Chouicha</h1> <Xpage=252>

<hw>Chou"i*cha</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Native name]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See <er>Quinnat</er>.</def>