Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of check is as below...

Choke :: Choke (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick..

Astringent :: Astringent (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc..

Worm :: Worm (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness..

Nip :: Nip (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy..

Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover..

Cashier :: Cashier (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company..

Checkwork :: Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

Fritillary :: Fritillary (n.) A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria..

Skunk :: Skunk (v. t.) In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king..

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

Check :: Check (v. i.) To clash or interfere.

Stay :: Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.

Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..

Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued..

Checkage :: Checkage (n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks..

Tally :: Tally (n.) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard..

Draughts :: Draughts (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers..

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) 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.

Checkerboard :: Checkerboard (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts..

Antemetic :: Antemetic (n.) A remedy to check or allay vomiting.

Random Fonts

Most Popular