Cheapener (n.) One who cheapens.
Cheap-jack (n.) Alt. of Cheap-john
Cheap-john (n.) A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
Cheaply (adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Cheapness (n.) Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
Chear (n. & v.) See Cheer.
Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Cheat (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
Cheat (n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
Cheat (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
Cheated (imp. & p. p.) of Cheat
Cheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheat
Cheat (n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
Cheat (n.) To beguile.
Cheat (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
Cheat (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Cheatable (a.) Capable of being cheated.
Cheatableness (n.) Capability of being cheated.
Cheater (n.) One who cheats.
Cheater (n.) An escheator.
Chebacco (n.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
Chebec (n.) See Chebacco.
Chebec (n.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
Check (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
Check (n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
Check (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
Check (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
Check (n.) Small chick or crack.
Checked (imp. & p. p.) of Check
Checking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Check
Check (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
Check (v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
Check (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
Check (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
Check (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
Check (v. i.) To clash or interfere.
Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
Check (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
Check (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.
Checkage (n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
Checkage (n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
Checker (v. t.) One who checks.
Checkered (imp. & p. p.) of Checker
Checkering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checker
Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
Checker (n.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
Checker (v. t.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
Checker (v. t.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
Checker (v. t.) Checkerwork.
Checkerberries (pl. ) of Checkerberry
Checkerberry (n.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
Checkerboard (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Checkered (a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
Checkered (a.) Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
Checkers (v.) A game, called also daughts, 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.
Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Checkerwork (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
Checklaton (n.) Ciclatoun.
Checklaton (n.) Gilded leather.
Checkless (a.) That can not be checked or restrained.
Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
Checkmate (n.) A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
Checkmated (imp. & p. p.) of Checkmate
Checkmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checkmate
Checkmate (v. t.) 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.
Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Checkroll (n.) A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Checky (a.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.
Cheddar (a.) Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.
Cheek (n.) The side of the face below the eye.
Cheek (n.) The cheek bone.
Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
Cheek (n.) The branches of a bridle bit.
Cheek (n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
Cheek (n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
Cheek (v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.
Cheeked (a.) Having a cheek; -- used in composition.
Cheeky () a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold.
Cheeped (imp. & p. p.) of Cheep
Cheep (v. i.) To chirp, as a young bird.
Cheep (v. t.) To give expression to in a chirping tone.
Cheep (n.) A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.
Cheer (n.) The face; the countenance or its expression.
Cheer (n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.
Cheer (n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.
Cheer (n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.
Cheer (n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.
Cheered (imp. & p. p.) of Cheer
Cheering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheer
Cheer (v. t.) To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up.