Part 1831

<h1>Check</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Checkered; designed in checks.</def>

<h1>Checkage</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of checking; <as>as, the <ex>checkage</ex> of a name or of an item in a list</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.</def>

<h1>Checker</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Check</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>One who checks.</def>

<h1>Checker</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Checkered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Checkering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From OF. <ets>eschequier</ets> a chessboard, F. <ets>\'82chiquier</ets>. See <er>Check</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. 3d <er>Checker</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To variegate or diversify with different qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity.</def>

<blockquote>Our minds are, as it were, <b>checkered</b> with truth and falsehood. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Checker</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>eschequier</ets>. See <er>Checker</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A pattern in checks; a single check.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Checkerwork.</def>

<note>&hand; This word is also written <i>chequer</i>.</note>

<h1>Checkerberry</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"er*ber`ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Checkerberries</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (<spn>Gaultheria procumbens</spn>). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (<spn>Mitchella repens</spn>).</def>

<h1>Checkerboard</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"er*board</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.</def>

<h1>Chackered</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Chack"ered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.</def>

<blockquote>Dancing in the <b>checkered</b> shade. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.</def>

<blockquote>This <b>checkered</b> narrative. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Checkers</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"ers</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Checher</er>, <tt>v.</tt>]</ety> <def>A game, called also <altname>daughts</altname>, 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.</def>