Definition of check

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Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff..

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Draught :: Draught (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers..
Teaberry :: Teaberry (n.) The checkerberry.
Stub :: Stub (n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded..
Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..
Stunt :: Stunt (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing..
Check :: Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
Tessellated :: Tessellated (a.) Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement..
Checker :: Checker (v. t.) Checkerwork.
Compesce :: Compesce (v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.
Antemetic :: Antemetic (a.) Tending to check vomiting.
Plaid :: Plaid (a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin..
Reprehend :: Reprehend (v. t.) To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure..
Tally :: Tally (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..
Tut :: Tut () Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
Control :: Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..
Snib :: Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.
Sprag :: Sprag (v. t.) To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel..
Fritillary :: Fritillary (n.) A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria..
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