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Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors. Cleaceland.

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

d manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.

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.

applause, triumph, etc. And even the ranks of Tusculum Could scare forbear to cheer. Macaulay.

undry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay. This general applause and cheerful shout. Shak.

ith small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherry stone. -- Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry sucker (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry…

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.

stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

art; mostly. Those parts of the kingdom where the . . . estates of the dissenters chiefly lay. Swift.

t. [Obs.] A boy or a child, I wonder Shak. To be with child, to be pregnant. -- Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay.

To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.

l-known garden flower and plant. See Aster. -- China bean. See under Bean, 1. -- China clay See Kaolin. -- China grass, Same as Ramie. -- China ink. See India ink. -- China pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. -- China…

rough one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]

ign of 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones. [Scot.]