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▪ I. checked, ppl. a.1|tʃɛkt|
[f. check v.1]
1. a. Stopped in progress; repressed; restrained.
1793T. Beddoes Calcul. 194 Which medical men attribute to checked perspiration. 1821Byron Juan v. cxxxiv, So supernatural was her passion's rise; For ne'er till now she knew a check'd desire; Even ye who know what a check'd woman is..would much fall short of this.
b. Applied to a syllable that ends in a consonant, or to the vowel in such a syllable; cf. closed ppl. a. 1.
1943K. L. Pike Phonetics 119 A syllable is checked (or closed) whenever it ends in a contoid. 1952A. Cohen Phonemes iv. 75 The so-called ‘Short’ or ‘Checked’ Vowels. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 164 In Table 1, the checked vowels..are paired with the free vowels which are phonetically most similar to them.
†2. checked paper: see cheque 2.
1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 621 If I have an account with the Bank of England..if I have no checked paper along with me, I cannot draw for a single sixpence to buy me a little bread and cheese.
†3. half checked. (? half-cheeked.)
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. ii. 57 With a halfe-chekt Bitte, & a headstall of sheepes leather.
▪ II. checked, ppl. a.2
Also chequed.
[f. check v.2 + -ed.]
Marked with lines crossing at right angles; variegated with different colours in squares or other geometrical figures; chequered.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 147 Custard, chekkid buche, square with þe knyfe. 1536Wardrobe Acc. Hen. VIII, in Archæol. IX. 248 Grene clothe of golde checked. 1625B. Jonson Paris Annivers., The checqued, and purple ringed daffodillies. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 171 Manufacturers of chequed goods in Glasgow. 1820Scott Monast. viii, Her checked apron. 1840R. Dana Bef. Mast iv. 6 White duck trousers and red or checked shirts. 1885Pall Mall G. 5 Sept. 4/1 The Englishman's chequed travelling cap. |