Definition of check

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Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.

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Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
Checker :: Checker (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity..
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..
Checkage :: Checkage (n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks..
Lichen :: Lichen (n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion..
Mate :: Mate (v. t.) To checkmate.
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse..
Plaid :: Plaid (n.) Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.
Wahabee :: Wahabee (n.) A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India..
Check :: Check (v. i.) To clash or interfere.
Mate :: Mate (n.) Same as Checkmate.
Fibre-faced :: Fibre-faced (a.) Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc..
Holdback :: Holdback (n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.
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..
Mutage :: Mutage (n.) A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.
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..
Checker :: Checker (v. t.) Checkerwork.
Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.
Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Stem :: Stem (v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current..
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