Word Meanings - LACTIFUGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.

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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.
• 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 .
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• 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.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• 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.
• SUPPOSITITIOUS
  1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly,
• 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.
• 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.
• ACCUMULATION
  The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees , the taking of several together,
• 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.
• CHECKY
  Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; --
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• 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.
• HYPERSECRETION
  Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.