choory (chori)

i.; pret. and pp. chooried, ppr. choorying. [ things. Ruskin, Modern Painters, IV. xvii. § 8. choose (chöz), v .; pret. chose , pp. chosen ( chose now obsolete or vulgar), ppr. choosing . [Until recently often chuse ; cheosen , chesen, occasionally chusen (pret. che as , ches , chees , pl. churen, chosen , pp. coren , chosen ), ceósan , That I may do all thy will cheerfully, choosingly , humbly, confidently, and continually. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 63. rod. [Prov. Eng.] chop1 (chop), v.; pret. and pp. chopped, ppr. chopping. [Orig. identical with chap1, which is now partly differentiated in use, though dial. (Sc.) like chop in all senses (see chap1 ); (1) IMG:content-0348.png:[blocks in formation] chop modern proce es.-5. A crack, cleft, or chink: in this sense more commonly written chap. See chap1, n., 1. The filling of the chops of bowls by laying them in water. Bacon, chop2 (chop), v.; pret. and pp. chopped, ppr. chopping. [A var. of chap4 = cheap, v. (cf. MΕ. copen, buy, D. koopen, buy): see cheap, v., and cope2; cf. caupl. From the sense of barter comes naturally the sense of 'exchange,' and hence 'turn'; but there seems to have been con fusion of this word with chop1, q. v.] I. trans. 11. To barter; truck.-2. To exchange; substitute, as one thing for another; swap. This is not to put down Prelaty; this is but to chop an Episcopacy. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 37. We go on chopping and changing our friends. Sir R. L'Estrange. To chop logic, to dispute or argue in a sophistical manner or with an affectation of logical terms or methods. Nay, stand not chopping logic; in, I pray. Chapman , All Fools, i. 1. A man must not presume to use his reason, unle he has studied the categories, and can chop logic by mode and figure. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. II. in trans. 1†. To bargain; chaffer; higgle. What young thing of my years would endure To have her husband in another country, Within a month after she is married, Chopping for rotten raisins? Beau. and Fl., Captain, i. 2. 21. To bandy words; dispute. Let not the council at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon , Of Judicature. Peace, varlet, dost chop with me? Chapman, Widow's Tears, v. 5. 3. To turn, vary, change, or shift suddenly: as, the wind chopped or chopped about. O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes ev'ry minute? Quarles, Emblems, i. 9.