Chokecherry

( Bot.) The Prunus borealis, an astringent species of cherry. Choke'-damp, n. Noxious suffocating gas or vapor generated in wells, coal-mines, and other subterranean excavations. IMG:content-0170.jpg:[blocks in formation] several things proposed to one's option. "Wisdom of what herself approves makes choice." - Denham. -a. Worthy of being chosen; select; rare; precious. "My choicest hours of life are lost." - Swift. -Keeping or maintaining with care, as valuable; frugal; chary; as, to be choice of money. "He that is choice of his time, will also be choice of his company, and choice of his actions." Taylor. Fig. 593. A CHOKEEDAR. of choking; full to superfluity. See (Village watchman, CHOCK-FULL. Hindostan.) Choke'-pear, n . A kind of rough, harsh-flavored, unpalatable pear. An aspersion or sarcasm used to silence another person. (Vulgar.) Johnson. "Pardon me for going so low as to talk of giving choke -pears." Richardson.