5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell.
Accidental, Common, ∧ Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.
Chord, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Chording.] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
When Jubal struck the chorded shell.
Dryden.
Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp.
Beecher.
Chord, v. i. (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.
||Chor"da (?), n. [NL., fr. L. chorda. See Chord.] (Anat.) A cord.
||Chorda dorsalis (&?;). [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.
Chor"dal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a chord.
||Chor*da"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. chorda cord.] (Zo÷l.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Chor*dee" (?), n. [F. cordÚ, cordÚe, p. p. of corder to cord.] (Med.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
Chore (?), n. [The same word as char work done by the day.] A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]
Chore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choring.] To do chores. [U. S.]
Chore (?), n. A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
||Cho*re"a (?). n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; dance.] (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.
Cho*ree" (?), n. [F. chorÚe.] See Choreus.
{ Cho`re*graph"ic (?), Cho`re*graph"ic*al (?), } a. Pertaining to choregraphy.
Cho*reg"ra*phy (?), n. [GR. &?; d&?;nce + -graphy.] The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.
Cho*re"ic (?), a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.
Cho`re*pis"co*pal (?), a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority.
||Cho`re*pis"co*pus (?), n.; pl. Chorepiscopi (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &?; bishop. Cf. Bishop.] (Eccl.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.
||Cho*re"us (?), Cho*ree" (&?;), n. [L. choreus, Gr. &?;, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorÚe.] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach.
Cho"ri*amb (?), n.; pl. Choriambs (&?;). Same as Choriambus.
Cho`ri*am"bic (?), a. [L. choriambicus, gr. &?;.] Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n. A choriamb.
Cho`ri*am"bus (?), n.; pl. L. Choriambi (#), E. Choriambuses (#). [L. choriambus, Gr. &?;; &?; a choreus + &?; iambus.] (Anc. Pros.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ⌣ ⌣ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.
Cho"ric (?), a. [L. choricus, Gr. &?;.] Of or pertaining to a chorus.
I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba.
Coleridge.
||Cho"ri*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. (b) The true skin, or cutis.