Definition of check

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Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..

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Rebuke :: Rebuke (v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish..
Check :: Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff..
Limit :: Limit (v. t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
Deal :: Deal (v. i.) To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with..
Lactifuge :: Lactifuge (n.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body..
Choke :: Choke (v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick..
Still :: Still (a.) To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea..
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..
Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
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..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Overslow :: Overslow (v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.
Teaberry :: Teaberry (n.) The checkerberry.
Mate :: Mate (n.) Same as Checkmate.
Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) A stoppage or check.
Checkmated :: Checkmated (imp. & p. p.) of Checkmat.
Mutage :: Mutage (n.) A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.
Cheque :: Cheque (n.) See Check.
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