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queezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle. With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

A kind of pear that has a rough, astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the mucous membrane of the mouth.

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

To provide with a chokebore.

The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

A watchman; an officer of customs or police. [India]

One who, or that which, chokes.

See Jerusalem artichoke.

Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate.

An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

n the explosion of fire damp in mines, and is hance called after damp; it is also know as choke damp, and mephilic air. Water will absorb its own volume of it, and more than this under pressure, and in this state becomes the common soda water of the shops, and the carbonated water of natural springs. Combined with lime…

A large herbaceos plant (Cynara Cardunculus) related to the artichoke; -- used in cookery and as a sald.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

ld cherry; as, prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).

See Choke.

Quite full; choke-full.