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n.
The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
n.
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
n.
A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
imp. & p. p.
of Check
n.
Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of 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.
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.
n.
A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
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A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
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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.
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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.
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.
v. t.
To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
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of Checkmate
a.
That can not be checked or restrained.
v. t.
To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
n.
A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Checkmate
v.
A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
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