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See Curb.

See Curbstone.

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.

A small South African antelope (Cephalous mergens); -- called also impoon, and deloo.

A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.

The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The duykerbok.

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

A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]

A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.

A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.

The duykerbok.

The checkerberry.