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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Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
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.
Repression :: Repression (n.) That which represses; check; restraint.
Choke :: Choke (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick..
Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..
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..
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..
Mate :: Mate (n.) Same as Checkmate.
Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.
Indorse :: Indorse (v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.)..
Check :: 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..
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..
Tut :: Tut () Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
Avail :: Avail (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease..
Repress :: Repress (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back..
Checkmate :: Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game..
Compesce :: Compesce (v. t.) To hold in check; to restrain.
Checkroll :: Checkroll (n.) A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
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