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Swift.


2. Preserving or using with care, as
valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice
of time, or of money.


3. Selected with care, and due attention
to preference; deliberately chosen.


Choice word measured phrase.

Wordsworth.


Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare;
chary; careful/


Choice"ful (?), a. Making
choices; fickle.
[Obs.]


His choiceful sense with every change doth
fit.

Spenser.


Choice"ly, adv. 1.
With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.
"A band of men collected choicely, from each county some."
Shak.


2. In a preferable or excellent manner;
excellently; eminently.
"Choicely good."
Walton.


Choice"ness, n. The quality of
being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.


Choir (?), n. [OE. quer, OF.
cuer, F. chœur, fr. L. chorus a choral
dance, chorus, choir, fr. Gr. &?;, orig.


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