[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

choose \choose\, v. t. imp. chose; p. p. chosen, chose
   obs.; p. pr.  vb. n. choosing. oe. chesen, cheosen,
   as. ce'osan; akin to os. kiosan, d. kiezen, g. kiesen,
   icel. kj=osa, goth. kiusan, l. gustare to taste, gr. ?,
   skr. jush to enjoy. root46. cf. choice, 2d gust.
   1. to make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference
      from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose
      the least of two evils.
      1913 webster

            choose me for a humble friend.        --pope.
      1913 webster

   2. to wish; to desire; to prefer. colloq.
      1913 webster

            the landlady now returned to know if we did not
            choose a more genteel apartment.      --goldsmith.
      1913 webster

   to choose sides. see under side.

   syn: syn. - to select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow.

   usage: to choose, prefer, elect. to choose is the
          generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an
          act of the will, especially in accordance with a
          decision of the judgment. to prefer is to choose or
          favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable
          than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes
          and feelings. to elect is to choose or select for some
          office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially
          by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number
          of electors. to choose a profession; to prefer private
          life to a public one; to elect members of congress.
          1913 webster
see also:
chose chosen choosing choice gust to choose sides 
side choose prefer elect 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
choses cause chose in action chose in possession chose local chose transitory 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chose \chose\,
   imp.  p. p. of choose.
   1913 webster
see also:
choose 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

chose
     see choose
see also:
choose 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
take select pick out prefer opt chosen 
chose 

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

chose, property. this is a french word, signifying thing. in law, it is 
applied to personal property; as choses in possession, are such personal 
things of which one has possession; choses in action, are such as the owner 
has not the possession, but merely a right of action for their possession. 2 
bl. com. 889, 397; 1 chit. pract. 99; 1 supp. to ves. jr. 26, 59. chitty 
defines choses in actions to be rights to receive or recover a debt, or 
money, or damages for breach of contract, or for a tort connected with 
contract, but which cannot be enforced without action, and therefore termed 
choses, or things in action. com. dig. biens; harr. dig. chose in 
action chitty's eq. dig. b. t. vide 1 ch. pr. 140. 
     2. it is one of the qualities of a chose in action, that, at common 
law, it is not assignable. 2 john. 1; 15 mass. 388; 1 cranch, 367. but bills 
of exchange and promissory notes, though choses in action, may be assigned 
by indorsement, when payable to order, or by delivery when payable to 
bearer. see bills of exchange. 
     3. bonds are assignable in pennsylvania, and perhaps some other states, 
by virtue of statutory provisions.inequity, however, all choses in action 
are assignable and the assignee has an equitable right to enforce the 
fulfilment of the obligation in the name of the assignor. 4 mass. 511; 3 
day. 364; 1 wheat. 236; 6 pick. 316 9 ow. 34; 10 mass. 316; 11 mass. 157, n. 
9 s.  r. 2441; 3 yeates, 327; 1 binn. 429; 5 stew.  port. 60; 4 rand. 266; 
7 conn. 399; 2 green, 510; harp. 17; vide, generally, bouv. inst. index, h.t.

     4. rights arising ex delicto are not assignable either at law or in 
equity. 

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