Choke - CHOKE, v.t.
1. To stop the passage of the breath, by filling the windpipe or compressing the neck. The word is used to express a temporary or partial stoppage, as to choke with dirt or smoke; or an entire stoppage that causes death; to suffocate; to strangle. Mark 5.
2. To stop by filling; to obstruct; to block up; as, to choke the entrance of a harbor, or any passage.
3. To hinder by obstruction or impediments; to hinder or check growth, expansion, or progress; as, to choke plants; to choke the spreading of the fruit.
Thorns choke them. Mat 13. Luke 8.
4. To smother or suffocate, as fire.
5. To suppress or stifle; as, to choke the strong conception.
6. To offend; to cause to take an exception; as, I was choked at this word.
We observe that this word generally implies crowding, stuffing or covering. A channel is choked by stones and sand, but not by a boom.
CHOKE, v.i.
1. To have the wind-pipe stopped; as, cattle are apt to choke when eating potatoes.
2. To be offended; to take exceptions.
CHOKE, n. The filamentous or capillary part of the artichoke.
Choose - CHOOSE, v.t.
1. To pick out; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more things offered; to make choice of.
The man the Lord doth choose shall be holy. Num 16.
2. To take in preference.
Let us choose to us judgment. Job 34.
3. To prefer; to choose for imitation; to follow.
Envy not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. Prov 3.
4. To elect for eternal happiness; to predestinate to life.
Many are called but few chosen. Mat 20.
For his elects sake, whom he hath chosen. Mark 13.
5. To elect or designate to office or employment by votes or suffrages. In the United States, the people choose representatives by votes, usually by ballot.
CHOOSE, v.i.
1. To prefer; as, I choose to go.
2. To have the power of choice. The phrase, he cannot choose but stay, denotes that he has not the power of choice, whether to stay or not.
The verb, in these phrases, is really transitive; the following verb standing as the object, instead of a noun.
Churl - CHURL, n.
1. A rude, surly, ill-bred man.
2. A rustic; a countryman, or laborer.
3. A miser; a niggard. Isa 32.
Cleft - CLEFT, pp. of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.
CLEFT, n.
1. A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. Isa 2:21.
2. A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
3. A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
Cloke - CLOKE, n.
1. A loose outer garment worn over other clothes both by men and women.
He was clad with zeal as a cloke. Isa 59.
2. A cover; that which conceals; a disguise or pretext; an excuse; a fair pretense.
Not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness. 1 Pet 2.
They have no cloke for their sin. John 15.
CLOKE, v.t.
1. To cover with a cloke.
2. To hide; to conceal; to use a false covering.