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Choragic monument, a building or column built by a victorious choragus for the reception and exhibition of the tripod which he received as a prize. Those of Lysicrates and Thrasyllus are still to be seen at Athens.

||Cho*ra"gus (?), n.; pl. Choragi (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;; &?; chorus + &?; to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.

Cho"ral (?), a. [LL. choralis, fr. L. chorus. See Chorus.] Of or pertaining to a choir or chorus; singing, sung, or adapted to be sung, in chorus or harmony.

Choral service, a service of song.

Cho"ral, n. (Mus.) A hymn tune; a simple sacred tune, sung in unison by the congregation; as, the Lutheran chorals. [Sometimes written chorale.]

Cho"ral*ist (?), n. A singer or composer of chorals.

Cho"ral*ly, adv. In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.

Chord (k˘rd), n. [L chorda a gut, a string made of a gut, Gr. chordh`. In the sense of a string or small rope, in general, it is written cord. See Cord.] 1. The string of a musical instrument. Milton.

2. (Mus.) A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.

3. (Geom.) A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.

4. (Anat.) A cord. See Cord, n., 4.

5. (Engin.) The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell.

Accidental, Common, ∧ Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for that point. -- Scale of chords. See Scale.

Chord, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Chording.] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.

When Jubal struck the chorded shell. Dryden.

Even the solitary old pine tree chords his harp. Beecher.

Chord, v. i. (Mus.) To accord; to harmonize together; as, this note chords with that.

||Chor"da (?), n. [NL., fr. L. chorda. See Chord.] (Anat.) A cord.

||Chorda dorsalis (&?;). [NL., lit., cord of the back.] (Anat.) See Notochord.

Chor"dal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a chord.

||Chor*da"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. chorda cord.] (Zo÷l.) A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.

Chor*dee" (?), n. [F. cordÚ, cordÚe, p. p. of corder to cord.] (Med.) A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.

Chore (?), n. [The same word as char work done by the day.] A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

Chore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Choring.] To do chores. [U. S.]

Chore (?), n. A choir or chorus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

||Cho*re"a (?). n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; dance.] (Med.) St. Vitus's dance; a disease attended with convulsive twitchings and other involuntary movements of the muscles or limbs.

Cho*ree" (?), n. [F. chorÚe.] See Choreus.

{ Cho`re*graph"ic (?), Cho`re*graph"ic*al (?), } a. Pertaining to choregraphy.

Cho*reg"ra*phy (?), n. [GR. &?; d&?;nce + -graphy.] The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes. Craig.

Cho*re"ic (?), a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.

Cho`re*pis"co*pal (?), a. Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his charge or authority.

||Cho`re*pis"co*pus (?), n.; pl. Chorepiscopi (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;; chw^ros, chw`ra, place, country + &?; bishop. Cf. Bishop.] (Eccl.) A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural district.

||Cho*re"us (?), Cho*ree" (&?;), n. [L. choreus, Gr. &?;, prop. an adj. meaning belonging to a chorus; cf. F. chorÚe.] (Anc. Pros.) (a) a trochee. (b) A tribrach.

Cho"ri*amb (?), n.; pl. Choriambs (&?;). Same as Choriambus.

Cho`ri*am"bic (?), a. [L. choriambicus, gr. &?;.] Pertaining to a choriamb. -- n. A choriamb.

Cho`ri*am"bus (?), n.; pl. L. Choriambi (#), E. Choriambuses (#). [L. choriambus, Gr. &?;; &?; a choreus + &?; iambus.] (Anc. Pros.) A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ⌣ ⌣ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

Cho"ric (?), a. [L. choricus, Gr. &?;.] Of or pertaining to a chorus.

I remember a choric ode in the Hecuba. Coleridge.

||Cho"ri*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.]

1. (Anat.) (a) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development. (b) The true skin, or cutis.

2. (Bot.) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.

||Cho"ri*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; separation.] (Bot.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

&fist; In collateral chorisis the parts are side by side. -- In parallel or median chorisis they are one in front of another.

Cho"rist (?), n. [F. choriste.] A singer in a choir; a chorister. [R.]

Chor"is*ter (?), n. [See Chorus.] 1. One of a choir; a singer in a chorus. Dryden.

2. One who leads a choir in church music. [U. S.]

Cho*ris"tic (?), a. Choric; choral. [R.]

Cho"ro*graph (?), n. [Gr. &?; place + -graph.] An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

Cho*rog"ra*pher (?), n. 1. One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

2. A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.

Cho`ro*graph"ic*al (?), a. Pertaining to chorography. -- Cho`ro*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Cho*rog"ra*phy (?), n. [L. chorographia, Gr. &?;; &?; place + &?; to describe.] the mapping or description of a region or district.

The chorography of their provinces. Sir T. Browne.

Cho"roid (?), a. [gr. &?;; &?; chorion + &?; form.] (Anat.) resembling the chorion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n. The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye.

Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

Cho*roid"al (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the choroid coat.

Cho*rol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; place + -logy.] (Biol.) The science which treats of the laws of distribution of living organisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude, locality, etc.

Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.

Cho*rom"e*try (?), n. [Gr. &?; place + -metry.] The art of surveying a region or district.

Cho"rus (?), n.; pl. Choruses (#). [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. [Obs.]

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.

Cho"rus, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chorused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chorusing.] To sing in chorus; to exclaim simultaneously. W. D. Howells.

||Chose (?), n.; pl. Choses (#). [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.

Chose (?), imp. & p. p. of Choose.

Cho"sen (?), p. p. of Choose. Selected from a number; picked out; choice.

Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

Cho"sen, n. One who, or that which is the object of choice or special favor.

Chou"an (?), n. [F.] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.

Chough (?), n. [OE. choughe, kowe (and cf. OE. ca), fr. AS. ceˇ; cf. also D. kauw, OHG. chāha; perh. akin to E. caw. √22. Cf. Caddow.] (Zo÷l.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.

Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black, with red feet, and beak; -- called also aylet and sea swallow.

||Chou"i*cha (?), n. [Native name] (Zo÷l.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

||Chou"ka (?), n. [Native name] (Zo÷l.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

Choule (?), n. [Obs.] See Jowl. Sir W. Scott.

||Choul"try (?), n. See Choltry.

Chouse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] [From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of ú4,000.] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

Chouse, n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.

3. A swindler. B. Jonson.

||Chout (?), n. [Mahratta chauth one fourth part.] An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

Chow"chow` (?), a. [Chin.] Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

Chowchow chop, the last lighter containing the small sundry packages sent off to fill up a ship. S. W. Williams.

Chow"chow` (chou"chou`), n. (Com.) A kind of mixed pickles.

Chow"der (-d&etl;r), n. [F. chaudiŔre a kettle, a pot. Cf. Caldron.] 1. (Cookery) A dish made of fresh fish or clams, biscuit, onions, etc., stewed together.

2. A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

Chow"der, v. t. To make a chowder of.

||Chow"ry (-r&ybreve;), n. [Hind. chaunri.] A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

Chow"ter (-t&etilde;r), v. t. [Cf. OE. chowre, and Prov. E. chow, to grumble.] To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

Choy" root` (choi" r&oomac;t`). See Chay root.

Chre`ma*tis"tics (?), n. [Gr. &?; 9sc. &?;) the art of traffic, fr. &?; goods, money, fr. &?; to use.] The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

Chre`o*tech"nics (?), n. [Gr. &?; useful + &?; art.] The science of the useful arts, esp. agriculture, manufactures, and commerce. [R.]

Chres`to*math"ic (?), a. Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

Chres*tom"a*thy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; useful + &?;, &?;, to learn.] A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

Chrism (?), n. [OE. crisme, from AS. crisma; also OE. creme, fr. OF. cresme, like the AS. word fr. LL. chrisma, fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to anoint; perh. akin to L. friare, fricare, to rub, Skr. gharsh, E. friable, friction. Cf. Chrisom.] (Gr. & R. C. Church&?;s)

1. Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.

2. The same as Chrisom.

Chris"mal (?), a. [LL. chrismalis.] Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.

Chris*ma"tion (?), n. [LL. chrismatio.] The act of applying the chrism, or consecrated oil.

Chrismation or cross-signing with ointment, was used in baptism. Jer. Taylor.

Chris"ma*to*ry (?), n. [LL. chrismatorium.] A cruet or vessel in which chrism is kept.

Chris"om (?), n. [See Chrism.]

1. A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

2. A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. [Obs.] Blount.

Christ (?), n. [L. Christus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; anointed, fr. chri`ein to anoint. See Chrism.] The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.

Christ"cross` (?), n. 1. The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.

The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

2. The beginning and the ending. [Obs.] Quarles.

Christ"cross-row` (?), The alphabet; -- formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm.

From infant conning of the Christcross- row. Wordsworth.

Chris"ten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Christened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Christening.] [AS. cristnian to make a Christian, fr. cristen a Christian.]

1. To baptize and give a Christian name to.

2. To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet.

3. To Christianize. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

4. To use for the first time. [Colloq.]

Chris"ten*dom (?), n. [AS. cristend&?;m; cristen a Christian + -dom.] 1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] Shak.

2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.]

Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak.

3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.

The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton

A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

4. The whole body of Christians. Hooker.

Chris"tian (?), n. [L. christianus, Gr. &?;; cf. AS. cristen. See Christ.]

1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.

The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. Acts xi. 26.

2. One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

3. (Eccl.) (a) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. (b) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.

&fist; In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, krīs"chan.

Chris"tian (?), a. 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.

3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone.

4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.

The graceful tact; the Christian art. Tennyson.

Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.

Chris`tian*ism (?), n. [L. christianismus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. christianisme.] 1. The Christian religion. [Obs.] Milton.

2. The Christian world; Christendom. [Obs.] Johnson

Chris"tian*ite (?), n. [In sense (a) named after Christian Frederic, of Denmark; in sense (b) after Christian VII., of Denmark.] (Min.) (a) Same as Anorthite. [R.] (b) See Phillipsite.

Chris*tian"i*ty (?), n. [OE. cristiente, OF. cristientÚ, F. chrÚtientÚ, fr. L. christianitas. ]

1. The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.

2. Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

3. The body of Christian believers. [Obs.]

To Walys fled the christianitee Of olde Britons. Chaucer.

Chris`tian*i*za"tion (?), n. The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.

Chris"tian*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Christianized (&?;); p. pr. vb. n. Christianizing.] [Cf. F. christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. &?;.]

1. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.

2. To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.

Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor.

Chris"tian*ize, v. i. To adopt the character or belief of a Christian; to become Christian.

The pagans began to Christianize. Latham.

Chris"tian*like` (?), a. Becoming to a Christian.

A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion. Shak.

Chris"tian*ly, adv. In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.

Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp.

Chris"tian*ly, a. Christianlike. Longfellow.

Chris"tian*ness, n. Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity. [Obs.] Hammond.

Christ"less (?), a. Without faith in Christ; unchristian. Tennyson.

Christ"like` (?), a. Resembling Christ in character, actions, etc. -- Christ"like`ness, n.

Christ"ly, a. Christlike. H. Bushnell.

Christ"mas (?), n. [Christ + mass.] An annual church festival (December 25) and in some States a legal holiday, in memory of the birth of Christ, often celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality.

Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitable for, Christmas. -- Christmas day. Same as Christmas. -- Christmas eve, the evening before Christmas. -- Christmas fern (Bot.), an evergreen North American fern (Aspidium acrostichoides), which is much used for decoration in winter. -- Christmas flower, Christmas rose, the black hellebore, a poisonous plant of the buttercup family, which in Southern Europe often produces beautiful roselike flowers midwinter. -- Christmas tree, a small evergreen tree, set up indoors, to be decorated with bonbons, presents, etc., and illuminated on Christmas eve.

Christ"mas*tide` (?), n. [Christmas + tide time.] The season of Christmas.

Chris"to*cen"tric (?), a. [Christ + centric.] Making Christ the center, about whom all things are grouped, as in religion or history; tending toward Christ, as the central object of thought or emotion. J. W. Chadwick.

Chris*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Crist + -logy.] A treatise on Christ; that department of theology which treats of the personality, attributes, or life of Christ.

Chris"tom (?), n. See Chrisom. [Obs.] Shak.

Chris*toph"a*ny (?), n. [Christ + Gr. &?; to show.] An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.

Christ's-thorn` (?), n. (Bot.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

Chro"ma*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + -scope.] An instrument for showing the optical effects of color.

Chro"mate (?), n. [Cf. F. chromate. See Chrome.] (Chem.) A salt of chromic acid.

Chro*mat"ic (?), a. [L. chromaticus, Gr. &?;, suited for color, fr. &?;, &?;, color; akin to &?; color, &?; skin, color of the skin.] 1. Relating to color, or to colors.

2. (Mus.) Proceeding by the smaller intervals (half steps or semitones) of the scale, instead of the regular intervals of the diatonic scale.

&fist; The intermediate tones were formerly written and printed in colors.

Chromatic aberration. (Opt.) See Aberration, 4. -- Chromatic printing, printing from type or blocks covered with inks of various colors. -- Chromatic scale (Mus.), the scale consisting of thirteen tones, including the eight scale tones and the five intermediate tones.

Chro*mat"ic*al (?), a. Chromatic. [Obs.]

Chro*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. In a chromatic manner.

Chro*mat"ics (?), n. The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

Chro"ma*tin (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, color.] (Biol.) Tissue which is capable of being stained by dyes.

Chro"ma*tism (?), n. [Gr. &?; a coloring.]

1. (Optics) The state of being colored, as in the case of images formed by a lens.

2. (Bot.) An abnormal coloring of plants.

Chro`ma*tog"e*nous (?), a. [Gr. &?;, &?;, color + -genous.] Producing color.

Chro`ma*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, color + -graphy.] A treatise on colors

Chro`ma*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, color + -logy.] A treatise on colors.

Chro"ma*to*phore` (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, color + &?; to bear.] 1. (Zo÷l.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

2. (Bot.) One of the granules of protoplasm, which in mass give color to the part of the plant containing them.

Chro"ma*to*scope` (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, color + -scope.] (Astron.) A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.

Chro"ma*to*sphere` (?), n. A chromosphere. [R.]

Chro"ma*trope (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + &?; turn, rotation, &?; to turn.] 1. (Physics) An instrument for exhibiting certain chromatic effects of light (depending upon the persistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

2. A device in a magic lantern or stereopticon to produce kaleidoscopic effects.

Chro"ma*type (?), n. [Gr. &?; color + &?; type.]

1. (Photog.) A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

2. The process by which such picture is made.

Chrome (?), n. Same as Chromium.

Chrome alum (Chem.), a dark violet substance, (SO4)3Cr2. K2SO4.24H2O, analogous to, and crystallizing like, common alum. It is regarded as a double sulphate of chromium and potassium. -- Chrome green (a) The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining. (b) A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue. -- Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.