Definition of check

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Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended..

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Control :: Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register..
Snib :: Snib (v. t.) To check; to sneap; to sneb.
Rebuke :: Rebuke (n.) Check; rebuff.
Stay :: Stay (n.) Hindrance; let; check.
Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow..
Counter :: Counter (adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a..
Control :: Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control..
Kite :: Kite (n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill..
Lichen :: Lichen (n.) A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion..
Ebrillade :: Ebrillade (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn..
Nip :: Nip (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy..
Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..
Checklaton :: Checklaton (n.) Gilded leather.
Deadener :: Deadener (n.) One who, or that which, deadens or checks..
Stanch :: Stanch (v. t.) To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound..
Uncheckable :: Uncheckable (a.) Not capable of being checked or stopped.
Checkerberries :: Checkerberries (pl. ) of Checkerberr.
Head :: Head (v. t.) To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship..
Teller :: Teller (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks..
Rebuff :: Rebuff (v. t.) To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously..
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