5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices.
6. (Mus.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts.
7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls.
Cho"rus, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chorused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.
||Chose (?), n.; pl. Choses (#). [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See Cause.] (Law) A thing; personal property.
Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. -- Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.
Chose (?), imp. & p. p. of Choose.
Cho"sen (?), p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice.
Seven hundred chosen men left-handed.
Judg. xx. 16.
Cho"sen, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.
Chou"an (?), n. [F.] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
Chough (?), n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ceˇ; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. chāha; perh. akin to E. caw. √22. Cf. Caddow.] (Zo÷l.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.
||Chou"i*cha (?), n. [Native name] (Zo÷l.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.
||Chou"ka (?), n. [Native name] (Zo÷l.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
Choule (?), n. [Obs.] See Jowl. Sir W. Scott.
||Choul"try (?), n. See Choltry.
Chouse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] [From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of ú4,000.] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]
The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.
Landor.
Chouse, n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.