Cheapener
Cheap″en‐er (?), n. One who cheapens.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Cheaply
Cheap″ly (?), adv. At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Cheapness
Cheap″ness (?), n. Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
Chear
Chear (?), n. & v. See Cheer.
Cheat
Cheat (?), n. [rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning bei...
Cheat (2)
Cheat, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cheated; p. pr. & vb. n.Cheating.] [See Cheat, n., Escheat.] 1. To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.I am subject to a tyrant, ...
Cheat (3)
Cheat, v. i. To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
Cheat (4)
Cheat, n. [Perh. from OF. cheté goods, chattels.] Wheat, or bread made from wheat. Drayton.Their purest cheat,Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.Chapman.
Cheatable
Cheat″a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being cheated.
Cheatableness
Cheat″a‐ble‐ness, n. Capability of being cheated.
Cheater
Cheat″er (?), n. 1. One who cheats.2. An escheator. Shak.
Chebacco
Che‐bac″co (?), n. [From Chebacco, the former name of Essex, a town in Massachusetts where such vessels were built.] (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newf...
Chebec
Che″bec (?), n.(Naut.) See Chebacco.
Chebec (2)
Che‐bec″ (?), n.(Zoöl.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
Check
Check (chĕk), n. [OE. chek, OF. eschec, F. échec, a stop, hindrance, orig. check in the game of chess, pl. échecs chess, through Ar., fr. Pers. shāh king. See Shah, and cf. Chec...
Check (2)
Check, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Checked (chĕkt); p. pr. & vb. n.checking.] 1. (Chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.2. To pu...
Check (3)
Check (chĕk), v. i. To make a stop; to pause; — with at.The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous und...
Check (4)
Check, a. Checkered; designed in checks.
Checkage
Check″age (–ā̍j), n. 1. The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.2. The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
Checker
Check″er, n. [From Check, v. t.] One who checks.
Checker (2)
Check″er (chĕk″ẽr), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Checkered (–ẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n.Checkering.] [From OF. eschequier a chessboard, F. échiquier. See Check, n., and cf. 3d Checker.] 1. To m...
Checker (3)
Check″er, n. [OF. eschequier. See Checker, v. t.]1. A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.2. A pattern in checks; a single check.3. Checkerwork.☞ This word is also written...
Checkerberry
Check″er‐ber′ry (–bĕr′ry̆), n.; pl.Checkerberries (#). (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the pa...
Checkerboard
Check″er‐board (–bōrd′), n. A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Checkered
Check″ered (–ẽrd), a. 1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.Dancing in the checkered shade.Milton.2. Diversified or variegated in a marked ma...
Checkers
Check″ers (chĕk″ẽrz), n. pl. [See Checher, v.] A game, called also draughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are mov...
Checkerwork
Check″er‐work′ (–wûrk′), n. 1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.How strange a checkerw...