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Rebuke :: Rebuke (n.) Check; rebuff.

Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check..

Stunt :: Stunt (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing..

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

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action..

Checkmate :: Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game..

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..

Control :: Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

Rebuff :: Rebuff (v. t.) To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously..

Controllable :: Controllable (a.) Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command..

Draughtboard :: Draughtboard (n.) A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.

Chequer :: Chequer (n. & v.) Same as Checker.

Tension :: Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness..

Checkered :: Checkered (imp. & p. p.) of Checke.

Check :: Check (n.) 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..

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.

Uncheckable :: Uncheckable (a.) Not capable of being checked or stopped.

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

Check :: Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber..

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