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Chlo"ru*ret (?), n. [Cf. F.
chlorure.] (Chem.) A chloride.
[Obs.]

Choak (?), v. t. & i. See
Choke.

Cho"a*noid (?), a. [Gr. &?; funnel
+ -oid.] (Anat.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied
particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye
in many reptiles and mammals.

Cho"card (?), n.
(Zoöl.) The chough.

Chock (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Chocked (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Chocking.] To stop or fasten, as with a
wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or
cask.

Chock, v. i. To fill up, as a
cavity. "The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into
joints." Fuller.

Chock, n. 1. A
wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to
fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent
it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath
it.


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