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To stop, as motion or agitation; to cause to become quiet, or comparatively quiet; to check the agitation of; as, to still the raging sea. He having a full sway over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it. Woodward.

f being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. De Foe. Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. Sir I. Newton. It is a great step toward the mast…

Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i. [Railroad Cant, U.S.]

er or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.

figuratively, to drift with the current of opinion, custom, etc., so as not to oppose or check it.

A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.

A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.

s of one's own choice. -- To take order for. See under Order. -- To take order with, to check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] Bacon. -- To take orders. (a) To receive directions or commands. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10. -- To take out. (a) To remove from within a place; to sepa…

To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard. W. C. Russell. Tally on (Naut.), to dovetail together.

Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior.

Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. The sight of the tar…

The checkerberry.

An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.

machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.

To form into squares or checkers; to lay with checkered work. The floors are sometimes of wood, tessellated after the fashion of France. Macaulay.

Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

Any small mark intended to direct attention to something, or to serve as a check. Dickens.

hey were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.