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Check [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A stop; hindrance; rebuff; sudden restraint, or continued restraint; curb; control; government.

2. That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person; any stop or obstruction.

3. In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight.

4. The correspondent cipher of a bank note; a corresponding indenture; any counter-register.

5. A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king.

6. An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer.

7. This is a sense derived from that in definition 4.

8. In popular use, checkered cloth; check for checkered.

9. CHECK or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants.

10. Clerk of the check in the British Kings household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, etc.

11. Clerk of the check in the British Royal Dock-Yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majestys ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled.

Check [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To stop; to make a stop; with at.

2. The mid checks at any vigorous undertaking.

3. To clash or interfere.

4. I love to check with business.

5. To strike with repression.

Check [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To stop; to restrain; to hinder; to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement; to moderate.

2. To rebuke; to chide or reprove.

3. To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity; to compare corresponding papers; to control by a counter-register.

4. In seamenship, to ease of a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended; also, to stopper the cable.

Check [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Checkered; designed in checks.

Check [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

2. A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.

3. Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.

4. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.

5. A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.

6. A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

7. The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

8. Small chick or crack.

Check [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.

2. To clash or interfere.

3. To act as a curb or restraint.

4. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.

5. To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.

Check [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.

2. To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

3. To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.

4. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.

5. To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.

6. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

Check-mate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The movement on a chess board or in the game of chess that kills the opposite men, or hinders them from moving, so that the game is finished.

2. Defeat; overthrow.

Check-mate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To finish.

Checkage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

2. The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.

Checked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stopped; restrained; repressed; curbed; moderated; controlled; reprimanded.

Checked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who checks or restrains; a rebuker.

2. A chess-board.

Checker [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To variegate with cross lines; to form into little squares, like a chess board, by lines or stripes of different colors. Hence,

2. To diversify; to variegate with different qualities, scenes, or events.

3. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.

Checker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

2. To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.

Checker [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who checks.

2. A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

3. A pattern in checks; a single check.

4. Checkerwork.

Checker-work [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Work varied alternately as to its colors or materials; work consisting of cross lines.

Checkerberries [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkerberry [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Checkerboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

Checkered [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.

Checkered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkers [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A common game on a checkered board.

Checkers [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

Checkerwork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.

Checking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stopping; curbing; restraining; moderating; controlling; rebuking.

Checking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checklaton [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Ciclatoun.

2. Gilded leather.

Checkless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

That cannot be checked, or restrained.

Checkless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That can not be checked or restrained.

Checkmate [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.

2. A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

Checkmate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

2. To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

Checkmated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkmating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Checkrein [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.