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Cardioinhibitory :: Cardioinhibitory (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action.

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.

Estacade :: Estacade (n.) A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy..

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..

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.

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

Saccade :: Saccade (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull..

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

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..

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

Check :: Check (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.

Skid :: Skid (v. t.) To check with a skid, as wagon wheels..

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

Checkwork :: Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

Stunt :: Stunt (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing..

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Pasteurization :: Pasteurization (n.) A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments..

Cheque :: Cheque (n.) See Check.

Ebrillade :: Ebrillade (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn..

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

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