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laced, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1

A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

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.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

One who chides or quarrels. Shak.

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

uid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.