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adj. 1. 1 shaped like a spine or thorn
Syn. -- spinous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Amianthus + -oid: cf. F. amiantoïde. ] Resembling amianthus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) (a) A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. (b) Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + -oid. ] Resembling a flower; flowerlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Aphtha + -oid. ] Of the nature of aphthæ; resembling thrush. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Same as Hemorrhoidal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. helianthes sunflower + -oid. ] (Zool.) An order of Anthozoa; the Actinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, a worm + -oid. ] Wormlike; vermiform.

a. [ Cf. F. hémorroïdal, hémorrhoïdal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to, or of the nature of, hemorrhoids. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; rectal; as, the hemorrhoidal arteries, veins, and nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ L. haemorrhoidae, pl., Gr. &unr_;, sing., &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), pl., veins liable to discharge blood, hemorrhoids, fr. &unr_; flowing with blood; a"i^ma blood + &unr_; to flow: cf. F. hémorroïdes, hémorrhoïdes. See Rheum.] (Med.) Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.] [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. [ OE. hoydon a lout, rustic, OD. heyden a heathen, gypsy, vagabond, D. heiden, fr. OD. heyde heath, D. heide. See Heathen, Heath. ] [ Written also hoyden. ] 1. A rude, clownish youth. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A rude, bold girl; a romp. H. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rustic; rude; bold. Younq. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To romp rudely or indecently. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a hoiden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Hoist. ] To hoist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They . . . hoised up the mainsail to the wind. Acts xxvii. 40. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hoisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoisting. ] [ OE. hoise, hyse, OD. hyssen, D. hijshen; akin to LG. hissen, Dan. hisse, Sw. hissa. ] To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hoisting him into his father's throne. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hoisting engine, a steam engine for operating a hoist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of hoisting; a lift. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a) The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff. (b) The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hoist bridge, a drawbridge that is lifted instead of being swung or drawn aside. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Hoisted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mechanical lift. See Elevator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opening for the hoist, or elevator, in the floor of a wareroom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Gf. W. hoetian to dally, dandle. ] To leap; to caper; to romp noisily. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Hoit. ] Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams? Congreve. [ 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 ]

{ pr>(?), } a. [ Litho- + -oid: cf. F. lithoïde. ] Like a stone; having a stony structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Lymph + -oid. ] (Anat.) Resembling lymph; also, resembling a lymphatic gland; adenoid; as, lymphoid tissue. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; -- used to designate any one of a series of carboxyl derivatives, called naphthoic acids of the general formula C10H7.COOH, such as 1-naphthoic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ornitho- + -oid + Gr. 'i`chnos footstep, track. ] (Paleon.) A fossil track resembling that of a bird. Hitchcock. [ 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 ]

a. [ Gr. ska`fh a boat + -oid: cf. F. scaphoïde. ] (Anat.) Resembling a boat in form; boat-shaped. -- n. The scaphoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scaphoid bone (a) One of the carpal bones, which articulates with the radius; the radiale. (b) One of the tarsal bones; the navicular bone. See under Navicular. [ 1913 Webster ]