Batrachoid :: Batrachoid (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines..

Choice :: Choice (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

Choice :: Choice (n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Choice :: Choice (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination..

Choice :: Choice (n.) A sufficient number to choose among.

Choice :: Choice (n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

Choice :: Choice (n.) The best part; that which is preferable.

Choice :: Choice (superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

Choice :: Choice (superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money..

Choice :: Choice (superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen..

Choiceful :: Choiceful (a.) Making choices; fickle.

Choicely :: Choicely (adv.) With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference.

Choicely :: Choicely (adv.) In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently.

Choiceness :: Choiceness (n.) The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

Choir :: Choir (n.) A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service..

Choir :: Choir (n.) That part of a church appropriated to the singers.

Choir :: Choir (n.) The chancel.

Conchoid :: Conchoid (n.) A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube..

Conchoidal :: Conchoidal (a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.

Echoing :: Echoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ech.

Epitrochoid :: Epitrochoid (n.) A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid..

Hobson''s Choice :: Hobson's choice () A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

Hypotrochoid :: Hypotrochoid (n.) A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid..

Mouchoir :: Mouchoir (n.) A handkerchief.

Retrochoir :: Retrochoir (n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar..

Selachoidei :: Selachoidei (n. pl.) Same as Selachii.

Trionychoidea :: Trionychoidea (n. pl.) A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina..

Trochoid :: Trochoid (n.) The curve described by any point in a wheel rolling on a line; a cycloid; a roulette; in general, the curve described by any point fixedly connected with a moving curve while the moving curve rolls without slipping on a second fixed curve, the curves all being in one plane. Cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, cardioids, etc., are all trochoids..

Trochoid :: Trochoid (a.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.

Trochoid :: Trochoid (a.) Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.

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