Part 1832

<h1>Checkerwork</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"er*work`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.</def>

<blockquote>How strange a <b>checkerwork</b> of Providence is the life of man. <i>De Foe.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Checklaton</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"la*ton</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Ciclatoun.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Gilded leather.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Checkless</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That can not be checked or restrained.</def>

<h1>Checkmate</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"mate</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. \'82chec et mat, fr. Per. <ets>sh\'beh m\'bet</ets> ceckmate, lit., the king is dead, fr. Ar. m\'beta he died, is dead. The king, when made prisoner, or checkmated, is assumed to be dead, and the game is finished. See <er>Chess</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.</def>

<h1>Checkmate</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"mate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Checkmated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Checkmating</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Chess)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>checkmate</b> and control my just demands. <i>Ford.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Checkrein</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"rein`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a <altname>bearing rein</altname>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.</def>

<h1>Checkroll</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"roll`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A list of servants in a household; -- called also <altname>chequer roll</altname>.</def>

<h1>Checkstring</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"string`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.</def>

<h1>Checkwork</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"work</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.</def>

<h1>Checky</h1> <Xpage=244>

<hw>Check"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>checquy</asp>, <asp>cheguy</asp>.]</altsp>