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ancellor, and upon such certificate the decree is usually founded. Blackstone. Certified check, A bank check, the validity of which is certified by the bank on which it is drawn.

See Check.

Same as Checker.

Same as Checky.

of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assemblly.

To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. Oats and darnel choke the rising corn. Dryden.

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.] His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.

A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an exchange of checks held by each against the others, and settling differences of accounts.

e ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.

To hold in check; to restrain. [R.] Carlyle.

To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

A drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

ar spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Burrill.