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CHECK, v.t. 1. To stop; to restrain; to hinder; to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement; to moderate.2. To rebuke; to chide or reprove.3. To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity; to compare corresponding papers; to control by a counter-register.4. In seamenship, to ease of a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended; also, to stopper the cable.CHECK, v.i. 1. To stop; to make a stop; with at.The mid checks at any vigorous undertaking.2. To clash or interfere.I love to check with business.3. To strike with repression.CHECK, n. 1. A stop; hindrance; rebuff; sudden restraint, or continued restraint; curb; control; government.2. That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person; any stop or obstruction.3. In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight.4. The correspondent cipher of a bank note; a corresponding indenture; any counter-register.5. A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king.6. An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer.This is a sense derived from that in definition 4.7. In popular use, checkered cloth; check, for checkered.Check or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants.Clerk of the check, in the British Kings household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, &c.Clerk of the check, in the British Royal Dock-Yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majestys ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled.
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CHECK, v.t. 1. To stop; to restrain; to hinder; to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement; to moderate.2. To rebuke; to chide or reprove.3. To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity; to compare corresponding papers; to control by a counter-register.4. In seamenship, to ease of a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended; also, to stopper the cable.CHECK, v.i. 1. To stop; to make a stop; with at.The mid checks at any vigorous undertaking.2. To clash or interfere.I love to check with business.3. To strike with repression.CHECK, n. 1. A stop; hindrance; rebuff; sudden restraint, or continued restraint; curb; control; government.2. That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person; any stop or obstruction.3. In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight.4. The correspondent cipher of a bank note; a corresponding indenture; any counter-register.5. A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king.6. An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer.This is a sense derived from that in definition 4.7. In popular use, checkered cloth; check, for checkered.Check or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants.Clerk of the check, in the British Kings household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, &c.Clerk of the check, in the British Royal Dock-Yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majestys ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled. | CHECK, n.- A stop; hinderance; rebuff; sudden restraint, or continued restraint; curb; control; government.
- That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight, or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person; any stop or obstruction. – Shak. Dryden. Clarendon.
- In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight. – Bailey. Encyc.
- The correspondent cipher of a bank note; a corresponding indenture; any counter-register. – Johnson.
- A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king.
- An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer.
This is a sense derived from that in definition 4.
- In popular use, checkered cloth; check, for checkered.
Check or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants. – Bailey. Encyc.
Clerk of the check, in the British King's household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, &c. – Bailey. Encyc.
Clerk of the check, in the British Royal Dock-yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majesty's ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled.
CHECK, v.i.- To stop; to make a stop; with at.
The mind checks at any vigorous undertaking. – Locke.
- To clash or interfere.
I have to check with business. – Bacon.
- To strike with repression. – Dryden.
[These applications are not frequent.]
CHECK, v.t. [Fr. echec, plur. echecs, which we have changed into chess; Sp. xaque, a move at chess; xaque de mate, check-mate; Port. xaque, a check; xagoate, a rebuke. Sp. and Port. xaquima, a halter; It. scacco, the squares of a chess-board; scacchi, chess-men; scacco-matto, check-mate; scaccato, checkered; Low L. scaccarium, an exchequer, Fr. echiquier; G. schach, chess; schachmatt, check-mate; D. schaak, chess; schaak-mat, check-mate; Dan. skak, chess, crooked, curving; skak-mat, check-mate; skakrer, to barter, chaffer, chop and change; Sw. schach, chess; schach-matt, check-mate; Russ. schach, check, chess; schach-mat, check-mate. In Spanish, xaque, zeque, is an old man, a shaik, and xaco, a jacket. These latter words seem to be the Ar. شَاحَ shaich, or شَاخَ; the latter is rendered to grow old, to be old, to blame or rebuke, under which we find shaik; the former signifies to use diligence, quasi, to bend to or apply; also, to abstain or turn aside. In Arabic we find also شَكَّ shakka, to doubt, hesitate, halt, and in Hebrew the same word שכך signifies to still, allay, sink, stop or check, to obstruct or hedge; שך a hedge. We have, in these words, clear evidence of the manner in which several modern nations express the Shemitic ש, or ش.]- To stop; to restrain; to hinder; to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement; to moderate.
- To rebuke; to chide or reprove. – Shak.
- To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity; to compare corresponding papers; to control by a counter-register.
- In seamanship, to ease off a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended; also, to stopper the cable. – Mar. Dict.
| Check
- A word of warning denoting
that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by
an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose
it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in
check, and must be made safe at the next move.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his
king, in check] to put in check.
- To clash or interfere.
- Checkered; designed
in checks.
- A condition of interrupted or impeded
progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in
check.
- To put a sudden restraint upon; to
stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
- To act as a curb or
restraint.
- Whatever arrests progress, or limits
action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
- To verify, to guard, to make secure,
by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a
check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an
original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to
check an account; to check baggage.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in
drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint,
etc.
- A mark, certificate, or token, by
which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be
identified; as, checks placed against items in an account;
a check given for baggage; a return check on a
railroad.
- To chide, rebuke, or
reprove.
- To turn, when in
pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- A written order directing a bank or
banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check,
below.
- To slack or ease off,
as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- A woven or painted design in squares
resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of
such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause
to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
- The forsaking by a
hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- Small chick or crack.
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Check CHECK, verb transitive 1. To stop; to restrain; to hinder; to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement; to moderate. 2. To rebuke; to chide or reprove. 3. To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity; to compare corresponding papers; to control by a counter-register. 4. In seamenship, to ease of a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended; also, to stopper the cable. CHECK, verb intransitive 1. To stop; to make a stop; with at. The mid checks at any vigorous undertaking. 2. To clash or interfere. I love to check with business. 3. To strike with repression. CHECK, noun 1. A stop; hindrance; rebuff; sudden restraint, or continued restraint; curb; control; government. 2. That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person; any stop or obstruction. 3. In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight. 4. The correspondent cipher of a bank note; a corresponding indenture; any counter-register. 5. A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king. 6. An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer. This is a sense derived from that in definition 4. 7. In popular use, checkered cloth; check for checkered. CHECK or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants. Clerk of the check in the British Kings household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, etc. Clerk of the check in the British Royal Dock-Yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majestys ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled.
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