CPage 177
- English Word Choke damp Definition See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
- English Word Choke pear Definition A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.
- English Word Choke pear Definition A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.
- English Word Choke-full Definition Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
- English Word Choke-strap Definition A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
- English Word Chokeberry Definition The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
- English Word Chokecherry Definition The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
- English Word Choked Definition of Choke
- English Word Chokedar Definition A watchman; an officer of customs or police.
- English Word Choker Definition One who, or that which, chokes.
- English Word Choker Definition A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
- English Word Choking Definition of Choke
- English Word Choking Definition That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
- English Word Choking Definition Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
- English Word Choky Chokey Definition Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
- English Word Choky Chokey Definition Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion.
- English Word Cholaemaa Definition A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
- English Word Cholagogue Definition Promoting the discharge of bile from the system.
- English Word Cholagogue Definition An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.
- English Word Cholate Definition A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.
- English Word Cholecystis Definition The gall bladder.
- English Word Cholecystotomy Definition The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
- English Word Choledology Definition A treatise on the bile and bilary organs.
- English Word Choleic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
- English Word Choler Definition The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
- English Word Choler Definition Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath.
- English Word Cholera Definition One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
- English Word Choleraic Definition Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.
- English Word Choleric Definition Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.
- English Word Choleric Definition Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.