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  • 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.