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Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover..

Stalemate :: Stalemate (n.) The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

Checkerberry :: Checkerberry (n.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Pane :: Pane (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern..

Overslow :: Overslow (v. t.) To render slow; to check; to curb.

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

Check :: Check (n.) Small chick or crack.

Deadener :: Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks..

Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

Shecklaton :: Shecklaton (n.) A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton.

Control :: Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..

Anthocarpous :: Anthocarpous (a.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple..

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

Checkered :: Checkered (a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

Check :: Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber..

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..

Damper :: Damper (n.) That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air. (b) A contrivance, as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time..

Fan :: Fan (n.) Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc., or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel..

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