CPage 151
- English Word Cheat Definition To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
- English Word Cheat Definition To beguile.
- English Word Cheat Definition To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
- English Word Cheat Definition Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
- English Word Cheatable Definition Capable of being cheated.
- English Word Cheatableness Definition Capability of being cheated.
- English Word Cheated Definition of Cheat
- English Word Cheater Definition One who cheats.
- English Word Cheater Definition An escheator.
- English Word Cheating Definition of Cheat
- English Word Chebacco Definition A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
- English Word Chebec Definition See Chebacco.
- English Word Chebec Definition A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
- English Word Check Definition 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.
- English Word Check Definition A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
- English Word Check Definition Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
- English Word Check Definition 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.
- English Word Check Definition A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
- English Word Check Definition 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.
- English Word Check Definition The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- English Word Check Definition Small chick or crack.
- English Word Check Definition To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
- English Word Check Definition To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
- English Word Check Definition 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.
- English Word Check Definition To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- English Word Check Definition To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- English Word Check Definition To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
- English Word Check Definition To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
- English Word Check Definition To clash or interfere.
- English Word Check Definition To act as a curb or restraint.