Check, tshek, v.a

to stop; to restrain; to chide or reduplicate;to mark as having been examined; to put in check [Che ]; to ease off a little of a rope which is too stiffly extended [Naut.); to stopper the cable [Naut.]: v.n. to stop: s. stop; restraint;he or that which checks; reproof or reprimand; a mark put against names in going over a list; something corresponding to compare with; an order for money, now usually written cheque; a token serving for identification; a checkered cloth; a term in che when one party obliges the other either to move his king or guard it; a term used when a hawk forsakes her proper game to follow rooks, . that cro her in her flight [Falcon.] Check, or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are the attendants and in the pay of a sovereign or great personage. Clerk of the check, a person in the royal household who has the control of the yeomen of the guard; an officer who keeps account of the men in a naval dockyard (Fr. échec, check at che check). cheques. ache -board,by lines or stripes of different colours; to diversify; to variegate. pl. draughts [U.S.]; a square of checker-work.