chop 
modern processes. 5. A crack, cleft, or chink: 
in this sense more commonly written chap. See 
chap 1 , n., \. 
Tlie tilling of tin! chnpa of Imwla by laying them in water. 
Bsooiii 
chop a (chop), r. ; pret. and pp. chopped, ppr. 
chopping. [A var. of chap* = cheap, r. (cf. ME. 
copen, buy, < D. knopi-n. buy ) : see cheap, r., and 
<;' 
'-'; <(. 
From the sense of ' barter' 
979 
TliouKh strong persuasion hung upon thy lip, 
Alax ! hmv <-li',]il'<i[! n now ! liinii-, The (Jrave. 
chop-house (chop'hous), . An eating-house 
where the serving of chops and steaks is made 
a specialty. 
I lost my place at the rhtip-hmtui 1 , where every man eats 
in |pulilick a mess of broth, or chop of meat, IniUaBML 
SfH-rtnlni . 
:hopin, choppin (chop'in), . [< ME. chopyn, 
< OF. chopim; a liquid measure; cf. chope, a 
beer-glass, < MD. schop/H', xc/m/ipi , .tclm/pe, a 
scoop, shovel, D. schop, a shovel, = LG. m-hn. 
It. To barter; truck.-2. To exchange; sub- ^.".i > *c/.oppc, a scoop, a piut, clwnta j <-f. 
- - ',, . , ., m-hopj, n, empty: see. iroop.] I. A Scotch liquid 
measure now abolished, equal to 52.1017 cubic 
inches (half a Scotch pint), or about nine tent lis 
of a United States (old wine) quart. 2. An 
old English measure equal to half a pint. 
They sold victuals by false measures, called chapj/n in 
deceit of the poeple. 
Archives of the City of London, A. ri. 1370, in Riley's 
(Memorials of London, p. 347. 
3. A measure of liquids used in Prance before 
the establishment of the metric system, and 
comes naturally the sense of 'exchange,' and 
hence 'turn' ; but there seems to have been con- 
fusion of this word with chop 1 , q. v.] I. trans. 
. 
stitute, as one thing for another ; swap. 
This is not to put down 1'relaty ; this is hut to chop an 
Episcopacy. Min,,,i, Areopagitica, p. 37. 
We go on chopping and changing our friends. 
fiir R. L'Eitrange. 
To chop logic, to dispute or a rune in a sophistical man- 
ner or with an affectation of logical terms or methods. 
Nay, stand not chopping logic; in, I pray. 
Chapman, All Fools, I. 1. 
A man must not presume to use his reason, unless he has 
studied the categories, and can chop lotjic by mode and 
figure. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
II. intrans. If. To bargain: chaffer; higgle. 
What young thing of my years would endure 
To have her husband in another country, 
Within a month after she Is married, 
Chopping for rotten raisins ? 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, I. 2. 
2f. To bandy words ; dispute. 
Let not the council at the bar cho f .with the Judge. ,, wll< , 
Peace, var,et,dost^wrme" fJUdiCatUre - chopine. (chopin or 
Chapman, Widow's Tears, v. 5. 
3. To turn, vary, change, or shift suddenly: as, 
the wind chopped or chopped about. 
() who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, 
That gives and takes, and chopi and changes ev'ry minute? 
Quartet, Emblems, 1. 9. 
chop 2 (chop), n. [< chop"*, v.] A turn of for- 
tune; change: vicissitude. Also chap chops 
and changes, vicissitudes ; lips and downs. 
There be odd chops ami change* in this here world, for 
certain. Marryat, Snarleyyow, II. ii. 
chop 3 (chop), n. [Var. of chap 2 , q. v.] A jaw : 
usually in the plural, the jaws ; the entrance to 
a harbor. See chap 2 . 
Chop 4 (chop), w. [< Hind, chhap, stamp, seal, 
print, copy, impression.] 1. In India, China, 
etc. : (a) An official mark on weights and mea- 
sures to show their accuracy. (6) A custom- 
house stamp or seal on goods that have been 
passed; a permit or clearance. 
The Governor or his Deputy gives his Chop or Pass to 
all Vessels that go up or down ; not so much as a Boat being 
suffered to proceed without it. Dampier, Voyages, II. 16. 
2. In China, brand ; quality : as, silk or tea of 
the first chop. Hence the colloquial phrase 
first chop, first rate. 3. A lot of tea to which 
a common mark or brand is affixed ; a brand of 
tea. A chop 
large number. 
The English merchants In Shanghae best know how 
many chops of ta they obtain from the district every year. 
W. 11. Medhurst, Interior of China, p. 150. 
Chow-chow chop. See chow-chow. The grand chop, 
the port clearance granted by the Chinese customs when 
all duties have been paid and all the port regulations 
complied with. Also called the red chop, from the large 
vermilion seal upon It. 
choragic 
Bedsteads are inurh more e,,i,,n,..n than in I'uraniya. 
'111.- I... I are called Palang or Chtin^ir Kbit , . . . they 
!"" em-tains. C. BwAofUM, Kastcrn India, ii. 
choppin, . See chopin. 
chopping 1 * (chop'faur), p. a. [Ppr. of chop 1 , r. 
The sense 'st.iul, plump,' arises from the old 
sense 'strike.' Cf. a similar use of bouncing.] 
Stout; lusty; plump; bouncing. [Colloq.] 
How say you now 
Is 't not a choj'jiin'f girl'.' 
.I/,./,//,/,,,,, i hast.- Maid, til. 5. 
The fair and chopping eliild. /',/.,,, 
chopping 2 (chop'ing), p. a. [Ppr. of choji 1 , r. 
(aee chopping 1 ),\n reference to the up and down 
movement, 'but also associated with chop-, 
change, var jr.] Running in short, irregular, 
broken, and interrupted waves, such as those 
than four fifths of an imperial pint. The name 
is now given to the demi-liter, which is a little 
more than the old measure. 
Sextarie is as a chopyn of Paris. 
Wycl\f, 3 Kl. vii. 26 (gloss.). 
4. A vessel, usually a canette or jug of stone- 
ware, holding about a chopin. 
[Formerly 
- n = Pg. 
a clog, chopine (cf. OF', eschapin, esca- 
pin, cscappin, escaffin, later and mod. F. escar- 
pin, pi. escarping, pumps), 
= It. scappino, a sock; cf. 
searpino, pump, light shoe.] 
A very high clog or patten, 
of Oriental origin, in some 
cases resembling a short 
stilt, formerly worn by wo- 
men under their shoes to 
elevate them from the 
ground. Evelyn calls them 
" wooden scaffolds." Coryat(1611) 
says some he had seen at Venice were half a yard high 
(the women graduating their height In accordance with 
their rank), so that the wearers required support to pre- 
' from 
covered with leather of various colors, some being curi- 
ously painted, and some gilt. The name came to be 
applied to the shoe or slipper and clog combined. 
Your ladyship is nearer heaven than when I saw you 
last by the altitude of a chopine. Shak., Hamlet, if. 2. 
The noblemen stalking with their ladys on chopping; 
these are high-heel'd shoes particularly affected by these 
proude dames, or, as some say, invented to keepe them at 
home, it being very difficult to walke with them. 
Evelyn, Diary, June, 1645. 
tea. A chop may contain a few chests or a chop-logic (chop'loj'ik), n. [< chop"*, v., + obj. 
1 """>"""*"" logic.] 1. An argumentative, disputatious per- 
son. 
How now 1 how now, chop-logic I what is this? 
Shak., R. and J., 111. 5. 
2. Disputation; arguing; hair-splitting; over- 
subtle reasoning : used contemptuously. 
Your chop-lnffike hath no great subtilty. 
Greene, Thieves Falling Out (Harl. Misc., VIII. 385). 
chopa, choppa (cho'pa, chop'pa), n. ; pi. chopa, chopness (chop'nes), n. [A corrupted form, 
choppa; (-pe). [ML.] A loose upper garment prob. repr. D. schop, a shovel (schoppen, spades 
worn in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, m cards), = LG. schuppe, > G. schiippe, a shov- 
chop-boat (chop'bot), n. In China, a licensed el, sclmppen, spades in cards ; related to shore, 
lighter or cargo-boat, for the conveyance of shovel, etc. : see chopin, shove, shovel.] A kind 
goods to and from vessels in the harbor. of shovel or spade. Simmonds. 
chop-cherry (chop'cher'i), M. [< chop 1 , v., + chop-nut (chop'nut), n. The Calabar or ordeal 
obj. cherry 1 .] A game in which a cherry hung bean, the seed of a leguminous twiner, Physo- 
by the wind blowing in a direction op- 
posite to that of a strong eurrent, or by the 
combination of different systems of waves: as, 
a cinippiiig sea. Also eftogpy, 
And let no man lose heart, and abandon a good scheme. 
1" .-a use he meets chapping seas and cross winds at the 
outset. Guthric. 
'ing), n. A corruption of cho- 
chopping-block (chop'ing-blok), n . A block on 
which anything is laid to be chopped. 
. . " Z-board (chop'ing-bord), n. A board 
on which anything is placed to be chopped. 
!,< '-Tuon'ing-nif ), H. A knife, usu- 
rith a cross-handle, for min- 
id( ' 
A mill in 
ely ground as feed for cattle, 
chopping-note (chop'ing-not), n. A note in the 
song of the nightingale. See extract. 
The chopping-note Is a low-pitched and abrupt note, 
sounding like ''chop, chop," uttered several times in quick 
succession, and is intermediate in quality between the 
truly musical and the simply noisy tones of the nightin- 
gale. Appleton's Ann. Cyc., 1886, p. 87. 
chopping-tray (chop' ing -tra), w. A wooden 
tray in which meat, vegetables, etc., are placed 
to be minced. 
choppy 1 (chop'i), a. [< chop 1 + -y 1 .] Full of 
clefts or cracks ; chapped ; wrinkled. 
Each at once her choppt/ finger laying 
Upon her skinny lips. Shak., Macbeth, I. 3. 
Choppy 2 (chop'i), a. [< chop 2 + -y 1 ; substituted 
for chopping 2 .] Same as chopping 2 . 
chop-Sticks (chop'stiks), H. pi. [< chop (redupl. 
chop-chop, quickly), a corruption of cup, the 
Cantonese pronuncia- 
tion of Chinese kih, 
quick, + E. stick. In 
Chinese these sticks 
are called kwai-tsze, < 
kwai, quick, + tsse, an 
individualizing forma- 
tive particle.] Small 
sticks of wood or ivory 
resembling lead pen- 
cils, but generally 
longer and slightly 
tapering, used by the 
Chinese, Japanese, 
and Coreans in eating, 
instead of knives and 
forks. They are used in 
pairs, held between the 
thumb and the first and sec- 
ond fingers. Called hashi 
by the Japanese. 
The meal concluded with Chop-sticks, 
an enormous lacquer box 
of rice, from which all our bowls were filled, the rice being 
thence conveyed to our mouths by means of chop-sticki. 
Lady Braucy, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xix. 
chop-churcht, . [< chop* + obj. church. Cf. 
dial, chap-church, a parish church.] A secular 
priest who gained money by exchanging his 
benefice. Halliicell. 
chopdar, n. Same as chobdar. 
chop-dollar (chop'dol'ar), n. and a. K chop* 
+ dollar.] I. w. In Cnina, Malacca, Burma, 
and Siam, a dollar bearing an impressed private 
mark as a guaranty of genuineness, it was for- 
merly the custom in Hongkong and the treaty ports of 
China for each firm to stamp in this way all coin passing 
through its hands. 
II. a. Having the appearance of a dollar cov- 
ered with chops or marks : applied to the face 
when deeply pitted with smallpox. 
chope (chop), . A mug or tankard having the 
sides slightly inclined in a conical form, 
chopfallen, a. See ' 
choppa, n. See chopa. 
chopper 1 (chop'er), n. [< chop 1 + -er 1 .] 1. 
One who or that which chops; specifically, a 
butchers' cleaver. 2. A hand-tool used for 
thinning out rows of young plants. 
chopper^, n. [In form identical with preced- 
ing, but with ref . to chopping 1 .] A stout, lusty 
child ; a bouncer. [Colloq.] 
The last prayer I made 
Was nine-year old last Bartholomew-tide; 'twould have 
been 
A jolly chopper an 't had liv'd till this time. 
Middleton, No Wit like a Woman's, ii. 2. 
chopper 3 (chop'er), n. [< chop* + -er 1 .] A 
cheek of bacon. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
chopper-cot (chop'er-kot), n. [Hind, chhapar- 
khdt, < chhapar, a thatched roof, a shed, + khdt, a 
bedstead,] In India, a bedstead with curtains. 
the worm ha8 ^ ed before 
its 
. Plural i 
(ko-raj'ik), a. [<"Gr. xP"7<*, xopn- 
yiKoc,, < jopajiif, x ? 1 !^'- see chorayus and -ic.] 
Pertaining to or connected with a choragus, or 
the liturgy called a choragy. 
The choragic victory of Lysikrates occurred B. 0. 335. 
A. S. Murray, Greek Sculpture, II. 330, note. 
Choraglc monument, in Gr. antfy., a small temple or 
shrine erected in honor of Bacchus by the successful 
choragus in a Dionysiac festival, upon which was dis- 
played the bronze tripod received as a prize by the cho- 
ragus, together with inscriptions usually giving the date, 
the play or plays represented, and the names of the per- 
formers. Choragic monuments were sometimes further 
ornamented by works of the most renowned artists, such 
as Praxiteles. In Athens a street called the Street of Tri- 
pods was lined with these monuments, of which a beau- 
