Word Meanings - CHECKERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

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• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• ENDOGENY
  Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• ENDENIZE
  To endenizen.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• ENDOPLASM
  The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• ENDOCHROME
  The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• COMMENDATOR
  One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
• AMENDFUL
  Much improving.
• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• ACCENDIBILITY
  Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• STIPEND
  Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
• SHENDFUL
  Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
• DECRESCENDO
  With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
• SEA LAVENDER
  See MARSH
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.