*choi*

a. [ Batrachia + -oid. ] (Zool.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidæ, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. chois, OF. chois, F. choix, fr. choisir to choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to choose, examine, G. kiesen. √46. Cf. Choose. ] 1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The power or opportunity of choosing; option. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination. [ 1913 Webster ]

I imagine they [ the apothegms of Cæsar ] were collected with judgment and choice. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sufficient number to choose among. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection. [ 1913 Webster ]

The common wealth is sick of their own choice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The best part; that which is preferable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flower and choice
Of many provinces from bound to bound. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

Syn. - See Volition, Option. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Choicer superl. Choicest ] 1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. [ 1913 Webster ]

My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choice word measured phrase. Wordsworth.

Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/ [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making choices; fickle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. “A band of men collected choicely, from each county some.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. “Choicely good.” Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. quer, OF. cuer, F. chœur, fr. L. chorus a choral dance, chorus, choir, fr. Gr. &unr_;, orig. dancing place; prob. akin to &unr_; inclosure, L. hortus garden, and E. yard. See Chorus. ] 1. A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [ Formerly written also quire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of a church appropriated to the singers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The chancel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Choir organ (Mus.), one of the three or five distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. --
Choir screen,
Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. --
Choir service, the service of singing performed by the choir. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a boy who sings in a choir. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the musical director of a choir.
Syn. -- precentor, cantor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; shell + e'i^dos form: cf. F. conchoïde. ] (Geom.) A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. conchoïdal. ] (Min.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.
Syn. -- imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Like or characteristic of an echo.
Syn. -- echolike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Reflecting sounds so as to create multiple echoes; as, a hotel with echoing halls. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. epi- + Gr. &unr_; wheel + -oid. ] (Geom.) A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the stable door. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. hypo- + trochoid. ] (Geom.) A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A handkerchief. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An Asiatic plant (Brassica rapa chinensis) grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves.
Syn. -- bok choy, bok choi, pak choi, Chinese white cabbage, Brassica rapa chinensis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. retro- + choir. ] (Eccl. Arch.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Selachii, and -oid. ] (Zool.) Same as Selachii. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Trionyx, and -old. ] (Zool.) A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a wheel + -oid; cf. F. trochoïde. See Troche. ] (Geom.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Anat.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the genus Trochus or family Trochidae. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a trochoid; having the properties of a trochoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat. & Zool.) See Trochoid, a. [ 1913 Webster ]