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A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil. The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim. Cowper.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

n; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize. One expression . . . must check and balance another. Kent.

A hindrance or disappointment; a check. A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker. South.

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

g, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind. Gen. xii. 6.

Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [Prov. Eng.]

ch he was little able to make." J. D. Forbes. - To brace to (Naut.), to turn (a yard) by checking or easing off the lee brace, and hauling in the weather one, to assist in tacking. -- To brace up (Naut.), to bring (a yard) nearer the direction of the keel by hauling in the lee brace. -- To brace up sharp (Naut.), to…

A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10.

A restraint; a curb; a check. I. Watts.

esuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person. (b) (Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to). (c) To cause (a vessel) to lie to, as by firing across her course. (d) To a…

A glossy woolen stuff, plain, striped, or checked. "a gay calamanco waistcoat." Tatler.

Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.

Checking or arresting the heart's action.

f money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.

Checking evacutions through astringent or styptic qualities.