CPage 152
- English Word Check Definition To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- English Word Check Definition To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- English Word Check Definition Checkered; designed in checks.
- English Word Checkage Definition The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
- English Word Checkage Definition The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
- English Word Checked Definition of Check
- English Word Checker Definition One who checks.
- English Word Checker Definition To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
- English Word Checker Definition To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
- English Word Checker Definition A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
- English Word Checker Definition A pattern in checks; a single check.
- English Word Checker Definition Checkerwork.
- English Word Checkerberries Definition of Checkerberry
- English Word Checkerberry Definition A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
- English Word Checkerboard Definition A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
- English Word Checkered Definition of Checker
- English Word Checkered Definition Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
- English Word Checkered Definition Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
- English Word Checkering Definition of Checker
- English Word Checkers Definition 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.
- English Word Checkerwork Definition Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
- English Word Checkerwork Definition Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
- English Word Checking Definition of Check
- English Word Checklaton Definition Ciclatoun.
- English Word Checklaton Definition Gilded leather.
- English Word Checkless Definition That can not be checked or restrained.
- English Word Checkmate Definition The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
- English Word Checkmate Definition A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
- English Word Checkmate Definition 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.
- English Word Checkmate Definition To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.