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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..

Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..

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.

Inhibit :: Inhibit (v. t.) To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

Checkmate :: Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game..

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..

Rebuke :: Rebuke (n.) Check; rebuff.

Checkerwork :: Checkerwork (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.

Checkage :: Checkage (n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks..

Checker :: Checker (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity..

Clearing :: Clearing (n.) A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts..

Checkstring :: Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

Counterchecking :: Counterchecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterchec.

Check :: Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff..

Checkerberries :: Checkerberries (pl. ) of Checkerberr.

Mate :: Mate (v. t.) To checkmate.

Checker :: Checker (v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

Antipyic :: Antipyic (a.) Checking or preventing suppuration.

Tirailleur :: Tirailleur (n.) Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers..

Draughts :: Draughts (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers..

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