Choose: Definition and part of speech

Choose

  1. v. i. To do otherwise.
  2. v. t. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
  3. v. t. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
  4. v. i. To make a selection; to decide.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Chondrigen: Definition and part of speech

Chondrigen

  1. n. The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.