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agulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

To choose [Obs.] Chaucer.

A member of certain orders of knighthood. Chevalier d'industrie ( Etym: [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalie…

e food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.

purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.

belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. "Childlike obedience." Hooker.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook.

e space between the sides of the fireplace and the fire; hence, the fireside. -- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, -- Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for each chimney. -- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metal placed at the top of a chim…

Whooping cough.

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden.

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.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

imp. & p. p. of Choose.

Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

The whole body of Christians. Hooker.

surly, ill-bred man; a boor. A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

See Choose. [Obs.]

See Shoot.