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Webster's English Dictionary

chorus

n. [L., a dance in a ring, a dance accompanied with song; a chorus, a band of dancers and singers. Gr. . See Choir.] ()

1. (Antiq.) A band of singers and dancers. ()

The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. (Dryden.)

2. (Gr. Drama) A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. ()

What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. (Milton.)

3. An interpreter in a dumb show or play. ()

4. (Mus.) A company of singers singing in concert. ()

5. (Mus.) A composition of two or more parts, each of which is intended to be sung by a number of voices. ()

6. (Mus.) Parts of a song or hymn recurring at intervals, as at the end of stanzas; also, a company of singers who join with the singer or choir in singer or choir in singing such parts. ()

7. The simultaneous of a company in any noisy demonstration; as, a Chorus of shouts and catcalls. ()

v. i. To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. (W. D. Howells.)

n. [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See Cause.] (Law) A thing; personal property. ()

Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit. -- Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount. ()