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Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen. Choice word measured phrase. Wordsworth.

ng 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…

Any chemical group or residue (as NO

to refine. Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden

, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

hold of, to seize roughly or quickly. -- To clap up. (a) To imprison hastily or without due formality. (b) To make or contrive hastily. [Obs.] "Was ever match clapped up so suddenly" Shak.

The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. Hooker.

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

es on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies.

A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestin…

rface above. This structure is characteristic of certain igneous rocks, as basalt, and is due to contraction in cooling.

h a single combatant meets a single opponent, as in the case of David and Goliath; also a duel.

influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to reeceive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price. 'Tis not in mortals to command success. Addison.

paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

ht be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury. Bacon.

Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; -- used with within. In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed. Sir J. Davies.

used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.

ltaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. Swift.