Choke"-strap` (?), n. (Saddlery) A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Chok"ing (?), a. 1. That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.
2. Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.
{ Chok"y Chok"ey } (?), a. 1. Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.
2. Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. "A deep and choky voice." Aytoun.
The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey.
T. Hughes.
||Cho*lŠ"ma*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; bile + &?; blood.] (Med.) A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.
Chol"a*gogue (?), a. [Gr. &?;; &?; bile + &?; leading, &?; to lead: cf. F. cholagogue.] (Med.) Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n. An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.
Cho"late (?), n. [Gr. &?; bile.] (Chem.) A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.
||Chol`e*cys"tis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; bile + &?; bladder.] (Anat.) The gall bladder.
Chol`e*cys*tot"o*my (?), n. [Cholecystis + Gr. &?; to cut.] (Surg.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
Chol`e*dol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; bile + -logy. Cf. F. cholÚdologie.] (Med.) A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.
&fist; LittrÚ says that the word cholÚdologie is absolutely barbarous, there being no Greek word &?;. A proper form would be cholology.
Cho*le"ic (?), a. (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.
Chol"er (?), n. [OE. coler, F. colŔre anger, L. cholera a bilious complaint, fr. Gr. &?; cholera, fr. &?;, &?;, bile. See Gall, and cf. Cholera.] 1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.]
His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow.
I. Warton.