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n. chocolate; a colloquial British abbreviation; as, a box ov chocs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The chough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. colloquial British abbreviation for chocolate ice cream. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fill up, as a cavity. “The woodwork . . . exactly chocketh into joints.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Naut.) Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. choquer. Cf. Shock, v. t. ] To encounter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An encounter. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting. [ 1913 Webster ]

pred. a. Quite full; full to capacity; choke-full; as, chowder chock-full of clams.
Syn. -- chockablock(predicate), chockful(predicate), choke-full(predicate), chuck-full(predicate), cram full. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Sp., fr. the Mexican name of the cacao. Cf. Cacao, Cocoa. ] 1. A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chocolate house, a house in which customers may be served with chocolate. --
Chocolate nut. See Cacao. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Choctaw. (Ethnol.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. dolichcéphalie. ] The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. dolicho`s long + kefalh` head. ] (Anat.) Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al a. & n.

n. (Shipbuilding) One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads, or inside planking above the upper deck. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of chiefly tropical American shrubs and trees having pinnate leaves and red or white flowers.
Syn. -- genus Lonchocarpus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) An infection with nematodes of the genus Onchocerca, especially Onchocerca volvulus. Untreated, such infections can cause serious dermatological problems, and in advanced cases may lead to blindness. In certain areas of tropical Africa the blindness caused by onchocerciasis is called river blindness. [ PJC ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout + kefalh` head.] (Zool.) An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebrae, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia. [1913 Webster]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ry`gchos snout + koi`los hollow.] (Zool.) Same as Nemertina. -- Rhyn`cho*coe"lous a. [ 1913 Webster ]