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raud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle. I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. Shak.

ve a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. Addison. No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. Wordsworth.

rs) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

y's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.

A coffin. [Obs.] He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. Chaucer.

o lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George.

To ruminate mentally; to meditate on. He chews revenge, abjuring his offense. Prior. To chew the cud, to chew the food ocer again, as a cow; to ruminate; hence, to meditate. Every beast the parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat. Deut. xxiv. 6.…

he office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.

China; a prefect, supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu (which see).

r administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.

A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.

armth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage. Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. Rogers.

To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. Chime his childish verse. Byron.

Penuriousness. [Obs.] By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer.

Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.

A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.

Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry. "His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.