*chore*

a. 1. Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [ Sometimes spelt ancred. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Hermitlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or mode of life of an anchoret. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ F. anachorète, L. anachoreta, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to go back, retire; &unr_; + &unr_; to give place, retire, &unr_; place; perh. akin to Skr. hā to leave. Cf. Anchor a hermit. ] One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [ Written by some authors anachoret. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Chored p. pr. & vb. n. Choring. ] To do chores. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A choir or chorus. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; dance. ] (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chorée. ] See Choreus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖/mhw>, n. [ L. choreus, Gr. &unr_;, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorée. ] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to choregraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dance + -graphy. ] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choreography. Craig. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; dance + -graphy. ] 1. The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called choregraphy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. the art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice. [ PJC ]

3. the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Chorepiscopi [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &unr_; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; sy`n with + &unr_; a going. ] (Rhet.) A concession made for the purpose of retorting with greater force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; enjoyment (fr. &unr_; to gladden) + &unr_; dance, dancing. ] (Gr. Myth.) The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter. [ 1913 Webster ]