Found 2 items, similar to Choses.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: chose
chose
See
choose
choose
v 1: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives;
“Take any one of these cards”;
“Choose a good husband
for your daughter”;
“She selected a pair of shoes from
among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her” [syn:
take,
select,
pick out]
2: select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an
alternative;
“I always choose the fish over the meat
courses in this restaurant”;
“She opted for the job on the
East coast” [syn:
prefer,
opt]
3: see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in
a certain way;
“She chose not to attend classes and now
she failed the exam”
[also:
chosen,
chose]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Choses
Chose
\Chose\, n.; pl.
Choses. [F., fr. L. causa cause,
reason. See
Cause.] (Law)
A thing; personal property.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]