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Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.

Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. South.

Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe.

A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. [Obs.] Spenser.

pherd's needle (Bot.), the lady's comb. -- Shepherd's plaid, a kind of woolen cloth of a checkered black and white pattern. -- Shephered spider (Zoöl.), a daddy longlegs, or harvestman. -- Shepherd's pouch, or Shepherd's purse (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant (Capsella Bursapastoris) bearing small white flowers a…

of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place.

To check with a skid, as wagon wheels. Dickens.

and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king. [Colloq.

Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent. The only smooth poet of those times. Milton. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full-resounding line. Pope. When sage Minerva rose, From her sweet lips smooth elocution flows. Gay.…

Checkmate given when movement of the king is completely obstructed by his own men.

To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To check; to sneap; to sneb. [Obs.] Him would he snib sharply for the nones. Chaucer.

To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. R. S. Poole.

The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. [Written also staunch.] Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose. Bacon.

ale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.] With what wing the staniel checks at it. Shak.

n, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy. To check the starts and sallies of the soul. Addison.

Hindrance; let; check. [Obs.] They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false. Robynson (more's Utopia).

t with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current. "An argosy to stem the waves." Shak. [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts. Denham. Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age. Pope.