chone (kon)

[NL., In many sponges the cortical domes are constricted near their communication with the subdermal cavity by a transverse muscular sphincter, which defines an outer division or ectochone from an inner or end ochone, the whole structure being a chone. Encyc . Brit ., XXII. 415. chonerhinid (kon-e-rin'id), n. A fish of the family Chonerhinida . 978 (pret. ceás, pl. cur on, pp. coren) = OS. kiosan = OFries. kiasa = D. kiezen = OHG. chiosan, MHG. G. kiesen = Icel. kjósa = Sw. kåra (in comp. ut - kåra, elect) = Dan. kaare = Goth. kiusan, choose, also prove, test (> kausjan, prove, test), = L. gustare, taste (> gust2 ), = Gr. γεύειν for * γεύσειν, taste, = Skt. √ jush, relish, enjoy. Hence cost1, and, through F., choice, q. v.] I. trans. 1. To select from two or more; make a choice of in preference to another or others, or to something else. The kerver at the boarde, after the King is pa ed it, may chese for hymself one dyshe or two, that plentie is among. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 325, note. My soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than life. Job vii. 15. Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. Cowper , Pairing Time Anticipated. 2. To prefer and decide: with an infinitive as object: as, he chose to make the attack. Because he ches in that Lond, rathere than in ony othere, there to suffre his Pa ioun and his Dethe. Mandeville , Travels, p. 2. Every age is as good as the people who live in it choose to make it. Lowell , New Princeton Rev., I. 157. 3. To prefer to have; be inclined or have a preference for. The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith . Syn. 1. Choose , Prefer, Elect , Select , fix upon, pitch up on, adopt. Choose is the most general of these words, but always represents an act of the will; it is the taking of one or some where all are not wanted or cannot be had. Choice may be founded upon preference or modified by nece ity. Prefer represents a verdict of the judgment or a state of the inclination; it emphasizes more than does choose the leaving of the rest: he who prefers apples to oranges will choose apples when he has the opportunity of choice; one may by inclination prefer to work at night, but, on grounds of health, choose to work only by day. Elect has an exact use in theology; its principal use otherwise is to expre the choice of persons, by ballot or otherwise, for office, membership in societies, etc.: as, to be elected alderman or treasurer; to elect certain studies in a college is to choose them formally. Select represents a careful, discriminating choice. He called unto him his disciples, and of them he chose twelve. Luke vi. 13. IMG:content-0347.png:[blocks in formation] We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. cide. Emerson , Quotation and Originality. II. in trans. 1. To elect; make a choice; deBoyet. And who is your deer? Ros. If we choose by the horns, yourself. Shak ., L. L. L., iv. 1. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Pre scott. 2. To prefer; desire; wish.-31. To have one's choice; do as one pleases. An you will not have me, choose . Shak ., M. of V., i. 2. Boy. They will trust you for no more drink. Mer. Will they not? let 'em choose . Beau . and Fl ., Knight of Burning Pestle, iv. 5. Chonerhinidæ (kon-e-rin'i-dē), n. pl. [NL.,