Name Report For First Name CHO:
CHO
First name CHO's origin is Other. CHO means "butterfy". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with CHO below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of cho.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with CHO and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with CHO - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming CHO
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES CHO AS A WHOLE:
echo terpsichore chochmingwu chosovi chosposi echoid melchoir conchobar nicholas cholena conchobara conchobarra conchobarre fanchone nichole nicholette chochmo chochokpi chochuschuvio chogan choovio choviohoya chowilawu conchobhar jericho michon pacho pancho pinochos sancho tocho nocholaus galchobhar choilleich fanchon choni choncey nicholNAMES RHYMING WITH CHO (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ho) - Names That Ends with ho:
maho clotho melantho astolpho tho gaho ahtunowhiho igasho otho vihoNAMES RHYMING WITH CHO (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ch) - Names That Begins with ch:
cha cha'akmongwi cha'kwaina cha'risa cha'tima chaba chabah chace chad chadburn chadburne chadbyrne chadwi chadwick chadwik chadwyk chafulumisa chaga chagai chaim chaisly chait chaitra chaka chakierra chalchiuitl chalina chalise chalmer chalmers chamorra chamunda chamyle chan chana chanah chanan chance chancellor chancey chanda chandara chandi chandler chandra chandria chane chanel chanell chanelle chaney chanler chann channa channe channelle channing channon chano chanoch chansomps chantae chantal chantalle chantay chante chantel chantell chantelle chantrell chanya chapa chapalu chapin chapman chappel chappell char chardae chardanae chardonnay charee charion charis charise charissa chariste charity charla charlaine charlayne charlee charleen charleena charlena charlene charles charleson charleston charletonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHO:
First Names which starts with 'c' and ends with 'o':
cadeo calico callisto calvino calypso cameo camero cammeo carlino carlo carlomagno carmelo caro carrado caseareo casimiro cathao cearo ceasario cecilio cedro celaeno cesario cesaro ceto charo charro chayo chepito cheveyo chico chiko chiyo cidro cipriano cirilo ciro cisco claudio cleo clio clodoveo coco columbo connlaio conrado constantino consuelo cordero cornelio corradeo corrado cosmo costello cristiano cristoforo cuartio cuarto cullo curcio currito curro cyranoEnglish Words Rhyming CHO
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CHO AS A WHOLE:
acholia | noun (n.) Deficiency or want of bile. |
acholous | adjective (a.) Lacking bile. |
anachoret | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anachoretical |
anachoretical | adjective (a.) See Anchoret, Anchoretic. |
anachorism | noun (n.) An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. |
anchor | noun (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station. |
noun (n.) Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: That which gives stability or security; that on which we place dependence for safety. | |
noun (n.) An emblem of hope. | |
noun (n.) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together. | |
noun (n.) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; -- a part of the ornaments of certain moldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament. | |
noun (n.) One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species of Synapta. | |
noun (n.) An anchoret. | |
verb (v. t.) To place at anchor; to secure by an anchor; as, to anchor a ship. | |
verb (v. t.) To fix or fasten; to fix in a stable condition; as, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. | |
verb (v. i.) To cast anchor; to come to anchor; as, our ship (or the captain) anchored in the stream. | |
verb (v. i.) To stop; to fix or rest. |
anchoring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Anchor |
anchorable | adjective (a.) Fit for anchorage. |
anchorage | noun (n.) The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor. |
noun (n.) A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor. | |
noun (n.) The set of anchors belonging to a ship. | |
noun (n.) Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge. | |
noun (n.) Something on which one may depend for security; ground of trust. | |
noun (n.) A toll for anchoring; anchorage duties. | |
noun (n.) Abode of an anchoret. |
anchorate | adjective (a.) Anchor-shaped. |
anchored | adjective (a.) Held by an anchor; at anchor; held safely; as, an anchored bark; also, shaped like an anchor; forked; as, an anchored tongue. |
adjective (a.) Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Anchor |
anchoress | noun (n.) A female anchoret. |
anchoret | noun (n.) Alt. of Anchorite |
anchorite | noun (n.) One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. |
noun (n.) Same as Anchoret. |
anchoretic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Anchoretical |
anchoretical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an anchoret or hermit; after the manner of an anchoret. |
anchoretish | adjective (a.) Hermitlike. |
anchoretism | noun (n.) The practice or mode of life of an anchoret. |
anchoritess | noun (n.) An anchoress. |
anchorless | adjective (a.) Without an anchor or stay. Hence: Drifting; unsettled. |
anchovy | noun (n.) A small fish, about three inches in length, of the Herring family (Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species. |
anthypochondriac | noun (a. & n.) See Antihypochondriac. |
antihypochondriac | noun (n.) A remedy for hypochondria. |
adjective (a.) Counteractive of hypochondria. |
archon | noun (n.) One of the chief magistrates in ancient Athens, especially, by preeminence, the first of the nine chief magistrates. |
archonship | noun (n.) The office of an archon. |
archontate | noun (n.) An archon's term of office. |
artichoke | noun (n.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food. |
noun (n.) See Jerusalem artichoke. |
antechoir | noun (n.) A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers. |
noun (n.) Where a choir is divided, as in some Spanish churches, that division of it which is the farther from the sanctuary. |
archoplasm | noun (n.) The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist. |
arthrochondritis | noun (n.) Chondritis of a joint. |
balachong | noun (n.) A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China. |
batrachoid | adjective (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines. |
batrachomyomachy | noun (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship. |
batrachophagous | adjective (a.) Feeding on frogs. |
bicho | noun (n.) See Jigger. |
borracho | noun (n.) See Borachio. |
broncho | noun (n.) A native or a Mexican horse of small size. |
bronchocele | noun (n.) See Goiter. |
bronchophony | noun (n.) A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in certain cases of intro-thoracic disease. |
bronchotome | noun (n.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes. |
bronchotomy | noun (n.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy. |
bucholzite | noun (n.) Same as Fibrolite. |
cacholong | noun (n.) An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal. |
cachou | noun (n.) A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath. |
caoutchouc | noun (n.) A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. |
caoutchoucin | noun (n.) See Caoutchin. |
choanoid | adjective (a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals. |
chocard | noun (n.) The chough. |
chocking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chock |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHO (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ho) - English Words That Ends with ho:
cascalho | noun (n.) A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand, in which the Brazilian diamond is usually found. |
derecho | noun (n.) A straight wind without apparent cyclonic tendency, usually accompanied with rain and often destructive, common in the prairie regions of the United States. |
echo | noun (n.) A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. |
noun (n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. | |
noun (n.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them. | |
noun (n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. | |
noun (n.) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps. | |
noun (n.) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner. | |
verb (v. t.) To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. | |
verb (v. t.) To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. | |
verb (v. i.) To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. |
fracho | noun (n.) A shallow iron pan to hold glass ware while being annealed. |
gaucho | noun (n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle. |
noun (n.) A member of an Indian population, somewhat affected by Spanish blood, in the archipelagoes off the Chilean coast. |
guacho | noun (n.) One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo. |
noun (n.) An Indian who serves as a messenger. |
huaracho | noun (n.) A kind of sandal worn by Indians and the lower classes generally; -- usually used in pl. |
macho | noun (n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus). |
malicho | noun (n.) Mischief. |
mallecho | noun (n.) Same as Malicho. |
moho | noun (n.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis. |
monarcho | noun (n.) The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. |
morpho | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots. |
mustacho | noun (n.) A mustache. |
mho | noun (n.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm. |
quebracho | noun (n.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. |
noun (n.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. |
poncho | noun (n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service. |
noun (n.) A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds. |
rancho | noun (n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night. |
noun (n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation. |
reecho | noun (n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo. |
verb (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon. | |
verb (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant. |
sappho | noun (n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail. |
sancho | noun (n.) The nine of trumps in sancho pedro. |
tallyho | noun (interj. & n.) The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. |
noun (interj. & n.) A tallyho coach. |
who | noun (pron.) One; any; one. |
(object.) Originally, an interrogative pronoun, later, a relative pronoun also; -- used always substantively, and either as singular or plural. See the Note under What, pron., 1. As interrogative pronouns, who and whom ask the question: What or which person or persons? Who and whom, as relative pronouns (in the sense of that), are properly used of persons (corresponding to which, as applied to things), but are sometimes, less properly and now rarely, used of animals, plants, etc. Who and whom, as compound relatives, are also used especially of persons, meaning the person that; the persons that; the one that; whosoever. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CHO (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ch) - Words That Begins with ch:
chamomile | noun (n.) A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative. |
noun (n.) See Camomile. |
chab | noun (n.) The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus). |
chabasite | noun (n.) Alt. of Cabazite |
chablis | noun (n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France. |
noun (n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California. |
chabouk | noun (n.) Alt. of Chabuk |
chabuk | noun (n.) A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. |
chace | noun (n.) See 3d Chase, n., 3. |
verb (v. t.) To pursue. See Chase v. t. |
chachalaca | noun (n.) The Texan guan (Ortalis vetula). |
chacma | noun (n.) A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.] |
chaconne | noun (n.) An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations. |
chad | noun (n.) See Shad. |
chaetetes | noun (n.) A genus of fossil corals, common in the lower Silurian limestones. |
chaetiferous | adjective (a.) Bearing setae. |
chaetodont | noun (n.) A marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. The chaetodonts have broad, compressed bodies, and usually bright colors. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetodonts or the family Chaetodontidae. |
chaetognath | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Chaetognatha. |
chaetognatha | noun (n. pl.) An order of free-swimming marine worms, of which the genus Sagitta is the type. They have groups of curved spines on each side of the head. |
chaetopod | noun (n.) One of the Chaetopoda. |
adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Chaetopoda. |
chaetopoda | noun (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species. |
chaetotaxy | noun (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect. |
chafing | noun (p pr. & vb. n.) of Chafe |
verb (v. t.) The act of rubbing, or wearing by friction; making by rubbing. |
chafe | noun (n.) Heat excited by friction. |
noun (n.) Injury or wear caused by friction. | |
noun (n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. | |
verb (v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. | |
verb (v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. | |
verb (v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable. | |
verb (v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction. | |
verb (v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated. |
chafer | noun (n.) One who chafes. |
noun (n.) A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. | |
noun (n.) A kind of beetle; the cockchafer. The name is also applied to other species; as, the rose chafer. |
chafewax | noun (n.) Alt. of Chaffwax |
chaffwax | noun (n.) Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents. |
chafeweed | noun (n.) The cudweed (Gnaphalium), used to prevent or cure chafing. |
chaff | noun (n.) The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc. |
noun (n.) Anything of a comparatively light and worthless character; the refuse part of anything. | |
noun (n.) Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle. | |
noun (n.) Light jesting talk; banter; raillery. | |
noun (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower. | |
verb (v. i.) To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. | |
verb (v. t.) To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. |
chaffing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaff |
noun (n.) The use of light, frivolous language by way of fun or ridicule; raillery; banter. |
chaffer | noun (n.) One who chaffs. |
noun (n.) Bargaining; merchandise. | |
noun (n.) To treat or dispute about a purchase; to bargain; to haggle or higgle; to negotiate. | |
noun (n.) To talk much and idly; to chatter. | |
verb (v. t.) To buy or sell; to trade in. | |
verb (v. t.) To exchange; to bandy, as words. |
chaffering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chaffer |
chafferer | noun (n.) One who chaffers; a bargainer. |
chaffery | noun (n.) Traffic; bargaining. |
chaffinch | noun (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch. |
chaffless | adjective (a.) Without chaff. |
chaffy | adjective (a.) Abounding in, or resembling, chaff. |
adjective (a.) Light or worthless as chaff. | |
adjective (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales. | |
adjective (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers. |
chagreen | noun (n.) See Shagreen. |
chagrin | noun (n.) Vexation; mortification. |
noun (n.) To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined. | |
adjective (a.) Chagrined. | |
verb (v. i.) To be vexed or annoyed. |
chargrining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chagrin |
chain | noun (n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc. |
noun (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit. | |
noun (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas. | |
noun (n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land. | |
noun (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels. | |
noun (n.) The warp threads of a web. | |
verb (v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite closely and strongly. | |
verb (v. t.) To measure with the chain. | |
verb (v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor. |
chaining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain |
chainless | adjective (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered. |
chainlet | noun (n.) A small chain. |
chainwork | noun (n.) Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work. |
chair | noun (n.) A movable single seat with a back. |
noun (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. | |
noun (n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. | |
noun (n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. | |
noun (n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in a chair. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. |
chairing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chair |
chairman | noun (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body. |
noun (n.) One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. |
chairmanship | noun (n.) The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body. |
chaise | noun (n.) A two-wheeled carriage for two persons, with a calash top, and the body hung on leather straps, or thorough-braces. It is usually drawn by one horse. |
noun (n.) a carriage in general. |
chaja | noun (n.) The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, / Chauna, chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called also chauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is useful in guarding other poultry. See Kamichi. |
chalaza | noun (n.) The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus. |
noun (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle. |
chalazal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the chalaza. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CHO:
English Words which starts with 'c' and ends with 'o':
cacajao | noun (n.) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala). |
cacao | noun (n.) A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds about the size of an almond, from which cocoa, chocolate, and broma are prepared. |
calamanco | noun (n.) A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. |
calando | adjective (a.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness. |
calico | noun (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. |
noun (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern. | |
adjective (a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color. |
caligo | noun (n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself. |
calypso | noun (n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N. |
cameo | noun (n.) A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like. |
camerlingo | noun (n.) The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. |
camisado | noun (n.) A shirt worn by soldiers over their uniform, in order to be able to recognize one another in a night attack. |
noun (n.) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. |
campanero | noun (n.) The bellbird of South America. See Bellbird. |
cantarro | noun (n.) A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds. |
noun (n.) A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons. |
canto | noun (n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book. |
noun (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. |
caparro | noun (n.) A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail. |
cariccio | noun (n.) A piece in a free form, with frequent digressions from the theme; a fantasia; -- often called caprice. |
noun (n.) A caprice; a freak; a fancy. |
capricioso | adjective (a.) In a free, fantastic style. |
capuccio | noun (n.) A capoch or hood. |
carapato | noun (n.) A south American tick of the genus Amblyomma. There are several species, very troublesome to man and beast. |
carbonado | noun (n.) Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. |
noun (n.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous. | |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Carbonade |
carbonaro | noun (n.) A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic. |
cardo | noun (n.) The basal joint of the maxilla in insects. |
noun (n.) The hinge of a bivalve shell. |
cargo | noun (n.) The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. |
carpintero | noun (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird. |
carriboo | noun (n.) See Caribou. |
cashoo | noun (n.) See Catechu. |
casino | noun (n.) A small country house. |
noun (n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc. | |
noun (n.) A game at cards. See Cassino. |
cassino | noun (n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points. |
castrato | noun (n.) A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano. |
catafalco | noun (n.) See Catafalque. |
catso | noun (n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. |
cavalero | noun (n.) Alt. of Cavaliero |
cavaliero | noun (n.) A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine. |
cavetto | noun (n.) A concave molding; -- used chiefly in classical architecture. See Illust. of Column. |
cello | noun (n.) A contraction for Violoncello. |
cembalo | noun (n.) An old name for the harpsichord. |
centesimo | noun (n.) A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime. |
cento | noun (n.) A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order. |
cerago | noun (n.) Beebread. |
cero | noun (n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis). |
chandoo | noun (n.) An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. |
charneco | noun (n.) Alt. of Charnico |
charnico | noun (n.) A sort of sweet wine. |
chebacco | noun (n.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. |
chiaroscuro | noun (n.) Alt. of Chiaro-oscuro |
chiffo | noun (n.) Alt. of niere |
chromo | noun (n.) A chromolithograph. |
cicero | noun (n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers. |
cicisbeo | noun (n.) A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women. |
noun (n.) A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. |
cinquecento | noun (n. & a.) The sixteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the Cinquecento; Cinquecento style. |
cisco | noun (n.) The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan. |
clarino | noun (n.) A reed stop in an organ. |
clio | noun (n.) The Muse who presided over history. |
cockamaroo | noun (n.) The Russian variety of bagatelle. |
cockatoo | noun (n.) A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinae, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, / Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus), etc. The palm or great black cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. |
cocobolo | noun (n.) Alt. of Cocobolas |
coendoo | noun (n.) The Brazilian porcupine (Cercolades, / Sphingurus, prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail. |
colocolo | noun (n.) A South American wild cat (Felis colocolo), of the size of the ocelot. |
colombo | noun (n.) See Calumba. |
colugo | noun (n.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur. |
columbo | noun (n.) See Calumba. |
comboloio | noun (n.) A Mohammedan rosary, consisting of ninety-nine beads. |
comedo | noun (n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt). |
concertino | noun (n.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto. |
concerto | noun (n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill. |
concetto | noun (n.) Affected wit; a conceit. |
condurango | noun (n.) See Cundurango. |
congo | noun (n.) Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. |
contango | noun (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. |
noun (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation. |
continuo | noun (n.) Basso continuo, or continued bass. |
contrabasso | noun (n.) The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone. |
contrafagetto | noun (n.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon. |
contralto | noun (n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor. |
noun (n.) the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice. |
coranto | noun (n.) A sprightly but somewhat stately dance, now out of fashion. |
cornuto | noun (n.) A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. |
corozo | noun (n.) Alt. of Corosso |
corosso | noun (n.) The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut. |
corvetto | noun (n.) A curvet. |
couranto | noun (n.) A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant. |
crambo | adjective (a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. |
adjective (a.) A word rhyming with another word. |
credo | noun (n.) The creed, as sung or read in the Roman Catholic church. |
crescendo | noun (n.) A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed. |
noun (n.) A passage to be performed with constantly increasing volume of tone. | |
adverb (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. |
croisado | noun (n.) A holy war; a crusade. |
crotalo | noun (n.) A Turkish musical instrument. |
crusado | noun (n.) An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. |
cruzado | noun (n.) A coin. See Crusado. |
cuckoo | noun (n.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species. |
cucujo | noun (n.) The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies. |
cuerpo | noun (n.) The body. |
cundurango | noun (n.) The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. |
curacao | noun (n.) Alt. of Curacoa |
curculio | noun (n.) One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio, the corn, grain, and rice weevils, etc. |
curio | noun (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu. |
curioso | noun (n.) A virtuoso. |
cururo | noun (n.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus. |
caballero | noun (n.) A knight or cavalier; hence, a gentleman. |
caballo | noun (n.) A horse. |
calabozo | noun (n.) A jail. See Calaboose. |
ca/oncito | noun (n.) A small ca/on. |
noun (n.) A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest. |
carabao | noun (n.) The water buffalo. |
cayo | noun (n.) A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key. |