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

Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.

Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

Issue :: Issue (n.) A point in debate or controversy on which the parties take affirmative and negative positions; a presentation of alternatives between which to choose or decide.

Antiphone :: Antiphone (n.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

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

Either :: Either (conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or..

Counter-paly :: Counter-paly (a.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure..

Alternacy :: Alternacy (n.) Alternateness; alternation.

Checkerboard :: Checkerboard (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts..

Rupturewort :: Rupturewort (n.) A West Indian plant (Alternanthera polygonoides) somewhat resembling burstwort.

Sea Pie :: Sea pie () A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie..

Reciprocal :: Reciprocal (a.) Recurring in vicissitude; alternate.

Diversification :: Diversification (n.) State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.

Saltern :: Saltern (n.) A building or place where salt is made by boiling or by evaporation; salt works.

Alternateness :: Alternateness (n.) The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns..

Systasis :: Systaltic (a.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart..

Halones :: Halones (n. pl.) Alternating transparent and opaque white rings which are seen outside the blastoderm, on the surface of the developing egg of the hen and other birds..

Responsory :: Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service..

Option :: Option (n.) The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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