CHECK

n. Che2k. Fr., echec. A means of stopping or limiting an action or proce , also (as in the expre ion c. experiment) of verifying the inference to be drawn from an experiment by repeating it in a modified form; as a v. tr.. to stop or control (e. g., a haemorrhage, a diarrhoea, etc.), also to verify an experiment by a modified repetition. [L.] [s. 211]