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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.

ed by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.

A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

See Clearstory.

See Cleavers.

The office of a commander.

An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] The conspersion washing the doorposts. Jer. Taylor.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

The office of a controller.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.

A disputant. [Obs.]

Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity. Whole libraries of controversial books. Macaulay.

One who carries on a controversy; a disputant. He [Johnson] was both intellectually and morally of the stuff of which controversialists are made. Macaulay.

In a controversial manner.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

A controverser. [Obs.]