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To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

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

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

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.

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

ome portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

Same as Checker.

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

To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.

A move, as at chess or checkers. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.

A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. [Eng.]

ch one boy tries to catch others as they run one goal to another. (b) A game with sixteen checkers, or some substitute for them, one of which is called the fox, and the rest the geese; the fox, whose first position is in the middle of the board, endeavors to break through the line of the geese, and the geese to pen up…

To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.] Freaked with many a mingled hue. Thomson.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.