Definition of check

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

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Plaid :: Plaid (a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin..
Controllable :: Controllable (a.) Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command..
Exchequer :: Exchequer (n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table..
Freck :: Freck (v. t.) To checker; to diversify.
Checklaton :: Checklaton (n.) Ciclatoun.
Stay :: Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.
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.
Check :: Check (n.) Small chick or crack.
Checkering :: Checkering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checke.
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..
Counterchange :: Counterchange (v. t.) To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2..
Snib :: Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.
Checkrein :: Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Tessellate :: Tessellate (v. t.) To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work.
Mutage :: Mutage (n.) A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.
Blast :: Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel..
Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..
Check :: Check (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove..
Checker :: Checker (v. t.) Checkerwork.
Allay :: Allay (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check.
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