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eches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

See Hose. [Archaic]

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

A thing; personal property. Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to…

Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

Same as Cirrose.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar.

Chosen beforehand.

To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.

One who metamorphoses. [R.] Gascoigne.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.

A trifle; a kickshaw. Donne.

See Spathic.

The plural of that. See That.

Without hose.

The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.

The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.

An orange-yellow substance found in pigment spots of certain crabs.

A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.