Definition of check

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Check (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure..

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Shaken :: Shaken (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2..
Check :: Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below..
Bearing Rein :: Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
Catastaltic :: Catastaltic (a.) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
Draught :: Draught (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers..
Damp :: Damp (n.) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage..
Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..
Repel :: Repel (v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant..
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..
Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Check :: Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..
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..
Checkmate :: Checkmate (n.) A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..
Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..
Chessboard :: Chessboard (n.) The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard..
Rebuke :: Rebuke (n.) Check; rebuff.
Checkless :: Checkless (a.) That can not be checked or restrained.
Deadener :: Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks..
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