CPage 184
- English Word Chouse Definition A trick; sham; imposition.
- English Word Chouse Definition A swindler.
- English Word Choused Definition of Chouse
- English Word Chousing Definition of Chouse
- English Word Chout Definition An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.
- English Word Chowchow Definition Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).
- English Word Chowchow Definition A kind of mixed pickles.
- English Word Chowder Definition A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.
- English Word Chowder Definition A seller of fish.
- English Word Chowder Definition To make a chowder of.
- English Word Chowry Definition A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies.
- English Word Chowter Definition To grumble or mutter like a froward child.
- English Word Choy root Definition See Chay root.
- English Word Chrematistics Definition The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.
- English Word Chreotechnics Definition The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.
- English Word Chrestomathic Definition Teaching what is useful.
- English Word Chrestomathy Definition A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.
- English Word Chrism Definition Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.
- English Word Chrism Definition The same as Chrisom.
- English Word Chrismal Definition Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
- English Word Chrismation Definition The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.
- English Word Chrismatory Definition A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.
- English Word Chrisom Definition A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
- English Word Chrisom Definition A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.
- English Word Christ Definition The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
- English Word Christ's-thorn Definition One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.
- English Word Christcross Definition The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.
- English Word Christcross Definition The beginning and the ending.
- English Word Christcross-row Definition The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.
- English Word Christen Definition To baptize and give a Christian name to.