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A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.

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 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.

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

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored 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.

To deposit in a chest; to hoard.

The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.

A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close a fireplace; a fireboard. -- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, by presenting an exit aperture always to leeward. -- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of th…

oke off, to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.

A coarse or stupid fellow. Shak.

A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton.

tion produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

nts, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see. A city is a town incorporated; which is, or has been, the see of a bishop; and though…

; -- with to or into. [Obs.] "Shall we clap into it roundly, without . . . saying we are hoarse" Shak.

The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.

The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

anvill. Some plain but cleanly country maid. Dryden. Displays her cleanly platter on the board. Goldsmith.

first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days. -- Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.

A cliff. [Obs.] That gainst the craggy clifts did loudly roar. Spenser.