Word Meanings - COUNTERCHECK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

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• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• CHECKREIN
  1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• CHECKLATON
  1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
• CHECKERBERRY
  A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
• CHECKAGE
  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.
• CHECKROLL
  A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
• CHECKERWORK
  1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• CHECKER
  One who checks.
• CHECK
  A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe
• CHECKERED
  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 manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.
• OBSTACLE
  That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral. If all obstacles were cut away. And that my path were even to the crown. Shak. Syn. -- Impediment; obstuction; hindrance;
• CHECKERBOARD
  A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
• CHECKERS
  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.
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• CHECKLESS
  That can not be checked or restrained.
• CHECKSTRING
  A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
• CHECKMATE
  lit., the king is dead, fr. Ar. mata he died, is dead. The king, when made prisoner, or checkmated, is assumed to be dead, and the game is 1. The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
• CASHIER'S CHECK
  A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier.
• COUNTERCHECK
  To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
• REOPPOSE
  To oppose again.