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Antiplastic :: Antiplastic (a.) Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation..

Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail..

Tirailleur :: Tirailleur (n.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers..

Stanch :: Stanch (n.) That which stanches or checks.

Incumbrance :: Incumbrance (n.) A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check..

Repression :: Repression (n.) That which represses; check; restraint.

Overslow :: Overslow (v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.

Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going..

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

Chill :: Chill (v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Estacade :: Estacade (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy..

Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) A stoppage or check.

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

Antemetic :: Antemetic (a.) Tending to check vomiting.

Checkstring :: Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

Checky :: Checky (a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.

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..

Allay :: Allay (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.

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