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

To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. [Obs.] Spenser.

Not capable of being checked or stopped. [R.]

- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Alleviation; abatement; check. [Obs.]

Tending to check vomiting. -- n.

me portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.

Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe.

Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.

Checking or preventing suppuration. -- n.

Checking the flow of saliva.

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

A stoppage or check. Darwin.

medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.

e sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.