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pret. of Chese. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To choose [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Chasuble.

The wood louse. [Prov. Eng.]

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

The wooden mold in which cheese is pressed. Simmonds.

s doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge. Wilhelm. A singular, chess, is sometimes used. "Each chess consists of three planks." Farrow.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

A piece used in the game of chess.

Mellow earth; mold. [Obs.] Bacon.

A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.

The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.

a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.

A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.

The chestnut tree. [Obs.] Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer.

The horse chestnut (often so used in England).