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- Check - n. - 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.
- Check - n. - A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
- Check - n. - Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
- Check - n. - 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.
- Check - n. - A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
- Check - n. - 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.
- Check - n. - The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- Check - n. - Small chick or crack.
- Check - v. t. - To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
- Check - v. t. - To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
- Check - v. t. - 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.
- Check - v. t. - To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- Check - v. t. - To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- Check - v. t. - To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
- Check - v. i. - To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
- Check - v. i. - To clash or interfere.
- Check - v. i. - To act as a curb or restraint.
- Check - v. i. - To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- Check - v. i. - To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- Check - a. - Checkered; designed in checks.
- Checkage - n. - The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
- Checkage - n. - The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
- Checked - imp. & p. p. - of Check
- Checker - v. t. - One who checks.
- Checker - n. - To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
- Gravel - v. t. - To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
- Nip - v. t. - Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- Control - n. - Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.
- 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.
- Stub - n. - A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
- Antemetic - n. - A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
- Avail - v. i. - To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
- Counter-roll - n. - A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
- Checkrein - n. - A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
- Discourage - v. t. - To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
- 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.
- Chill - v. t. - To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
- Congeal - v. t. - To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
- Snub - n. - A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
- Countercheck - v. t. - To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
- Sprag - v. t. - To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
- Tally - n. - To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
- Countercheck - n. - A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.
- Checkmate - v. t. - To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
- Lactifuge - n. - A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
- Reverse - a. - The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse.
- Arrest - v. t. - To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
- Faser - n. - A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy.
- Stop-over - a. - Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
- Damp - n. - To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain, as action or vigor; to make dull; to weaken; to discourage.
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- G348 ἀνακόπτω - 348 ἀνακόπτω - ἈΝΑΚΌΠΤΩ - - anakóptō - an-ak-op'-to - from ἀνά and κόπτω; to beat back, i.e. check:--hinder. - Verb - greek
- H4148 מוּסָר - 4148 מוּסָר - מוּסָר - - mûwçâr - moo-sawr' - from יָסַר; properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint; bond, chastening(-eth), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7639 שְׂבָכָה - 7639 שְׂבָכָה - שְׂבָכָה - - sᵉbâkâh - seb-aw-kaw' - feminine of שָׂבָךְ; a net-work, i.e. (in hunting) a snare, (in architecture) a ballustrade; also a reticulated ornament to apillar; checker, lattice, network, snare, wreath(-enwork). - Noun Feminine - heb
- H8665 תַּשְׁבֵּץ - 8665 תַּשְׁבֵּץ - תַּשְׁבֵּץ - - tashbêts - tash-bates' - from שָׁבַץ; checkered stuff (as reticulated); broidered. - Noun Masculine - heb
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- 1 Kings 11 7:17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
שָׂבָךְ שְׂבָכָה מַעֲשֶׂה גְּדִל שַׁרְשְׁרָה מַעֲשֶׂה כֹתֶרֶת רֹאשׁ עַמּוּד שֶׁבַע אֶחָד כֹתֶרֶת שֶׁבַע שֵׁנִי כֹתֶרֶת - Job 18 20:3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
שָׁמַע מוּסָר כְּלִמָּה רוּחַ בִּינָה עָנָה