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-- Check nut (Mech.), a secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. Knight. -- Check valve (Mech.), a valve in the feed pipe of a boiler to prevent the return of the feed water. -- To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] Dryden.

The branches of a bridle bit. Knight.

rt. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser.

ored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms." Shak.

efixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.

The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. Knight. Chill and fever, fever and ague.

to accompany the striking of the hours or their divisions. We have heard the chimes at midnight. Shak.

A small tool used in cleaving laths. Knight.

Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

ring noise such as that made by some insects, as the cockchafer, or by some birds, as the nightjar, the partridge, etc.

iferate; to complain; to make importunate demands. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak.

rap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.

ing material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat. Knight.

A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.

used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Knight.

erlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.

The bridge piece which affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch. Knight. Ball cock. See under Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South Amer…