Crossword-Solution: CHOUS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Poor PRESBYTER was now reduc'd, Secluded, and cashier'd, and chous'd Turn'd out, and excommunicate From all affairs of Church and State; 90 Reform'd t' a reformado Saint, And glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town, And those he had taught up, teach down.

Wen-wang, the Beauclerc of the Chous, is one of the most notable figures in the ancient history of China.

The Chinese have a proverb which runs, "Whip an ass and let a horse see it." What shall be said of the successors of Cheng-wang? To account for the meagre chronicles of previous dynasties one may invoke the poverty of a language not yet sufficiently mature for the requirements of history; but for the seeming insignificance of the long line of Chous, who lived in the early bloom, if not the rich fruitage, of the classic period, no such apology is admissible.

Yet was the centralised government of the First Hwang-ti an immense improvement on the loose agglomeration of the Chous.

Edition 1819, in 3 vols, 8vo.] When geese and pullen are seduc'd, And sows of sucking pigs are chous'd: When cattle feel indisposition, And need th' opinion of physician; When murrain reigns in hogs or sheep, And chickens languish of the pip; When yeast and outward means do fail, And have no power to work on ale; When butter does refuse to come, And love proves cross and humoursome; To him with questions and with urine, They for discov'ry flock, or curing.