Results for check
Definitions of check:
part of speech: verb transitive
To restrain; stop; reprove; to examine by comparison, or mark as having been examined or verified; in chess, to put ( a king) in danger; to mark in small squares.
part of speech: noun
A term in chess when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king: anything that checks: a sudden stop: in B., a rebuke.
part of speech: noun
A restraint; a reproof; a pass, ticket, or token; a pattern woven in alternate squares; an order on a bank for money; in chess, a word signifying an attack on the king; a setback; a mark signifying that something has been examined or verifled.
part of speech: noun
Stop; restraint; continued restraint; curb; that which stops or controls; a term in chess; a pass, ticket, or token; cloth woven in squares of different colours.
part of speech: verb
To stop; to restrain; to moderate; to chide or reprove; to control; to compare and examine papers or accounts to ascertain their accuracy.