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separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down. Chop off your hand, and it to the king. Shak.

A mélange served in Chinese restaurants to be eaten with rice, noodles, etc. It consists typically of bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc., and sliced meats, fried and flavored with sesame oil. [U. S.]

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.

A licensed lighter employed in the transportation of goods to and from vessels. [China] S. W. Williams.

An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving.

See Chopine.

some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

A kind of spade. [Eng.]

One who, or that which, chops.

ging suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

Full of cracks. "Choppy finger." Shak.

The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

Malacopoda.