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ersify with different qualities, color, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

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.

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

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.]

ction of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

cluding the tortoises and turtles, perculiar in having a part of the vertebræ, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

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

in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

The common greasewood of the western United States (Sarcobatus vermiculatus).

A country in Eastern Asia.

s from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.

small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Oregon a tree 30 to 125 feet high.

A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the northern and weastern shores of Lake Superior; -- called also Objibways.

Leggings. [Mex. & Southwestern U. S.]

alline substance, obtained by treating chloral with water. It produces sleep when taken internally or hypodermically; -- called also chloral.

resin, etc., and is extensively used to produce anæsthesia in surgical operations; also externally, to alleviate pain.

A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.