Definition of check

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Check (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check..

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Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Overslow :: Overslow (v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.
Checkstring :: Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Antemetic :: Antemetic (n.) A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.
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..
Tessellate :: Tessellate (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
Check :: Check (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
Teller :: Teller (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks..
Control :: Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.
Tessellated :: Tessellated (a.) Marked like a checkerboard; as, a tessellated leaf..
Curb :: Curb (v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check..
Tush :: Tush (interj.) An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it..
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..
Countercheck :: Countercheck (v. t.) To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..
Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..
Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle..
Snib :: Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.
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