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checkn.2

Brit. /tʃɛk/, U.S. /tʃɛk/
Forms: Also 1600s checque, cheque.
Etymology: Goes with check v.2, either as its verbal noun, or as short for chequer n.1
1. Heraldry and gen. A pattern of cross lines forming small squares, as in a chessboard.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun]
checkingc1440
checkc1450
chequer-work1519
chequer1779
chequerboard1835
checkery1837
quadrille1884
windowpane check1898
Prince of Wales check1935
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > lines or edges > [noun] > cross lines forming check pattern
checkc1450
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > geometric
checkingc1440
checkc1450
chequer-work1519
pane?a1549
diaper-work1602
chevron1605
diapery1631
fret1664
tooth-work1681
polygram1696
chequer1779
reticulum1797
Grecque1832
checkery1837
gammadion1848
diaper1851
key pattern1853
diapering1866
Greek fret1872
rangoli1884
geometric1894
Greek key1897
step pattern1908
Mondrian1964
c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 189 He bare a Chek of goulis clere, An Egle of goolde abrode displayed.
1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 15 Cheuerons..Checkes, and suche lyke,—stande vppon geometricall proportiones.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 389 The one half plain, the other wrought in cheque.
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 57 I cut several Ornaments and Checks for the Bills.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 617 And Jenny..Displays a napkin of enormous check.
1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) 80 Cope; ground, green raised velvet; design, amid leaves of a heart-shape or cordate, freckled with a kind of check.
2. A fabric woven or printed with such a pattern. Also attributive, as in check kersey; check handkerchief, check apron; check pattern, check trade, etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > checked
checkery1420
chequer1542
check1625
1625 W. Peyton 2nd Voy. in S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. xv Indicoes of two sorts, Checques the courser.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxxi. 278 A couple of old check shirts.
1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 457 I should be glad of 30 yards of check.
1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 35 A large blue check handkerchief.
1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/6 Looms for weaving checks and trouserings.
3. Agriculture. Each of a series of squares made by cross-marking. So check-row n. one of a series of rows (in planting) so arranged as to form a check-pattern; also attributive. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [noun] > row of plants > as part of check-pattern
check1787
check-row1859
1787 G. Washington Diary (1925) III. 194 In each of these checks or crosses, one root, when it was large and looked well was put, and two where they were small.
1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 62 I lay off my ground with a corn-marker..into checks of three feet three inches square.
1859 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1858: Arts & Manuf. I. 474 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (35th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 105, Pt. 1) X The seed may..be distributed from either hopper, and sown either in drills or check-rows.
1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 248 If he wishes to plant in checks so as to plow the corn both ways, he must have a boy to tend the check-set.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 209 In spring it will be harrowed thoroughly, planted by hands in check rows three feet ten inches apart each way.
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 312 Most of the corn is now planted with drills, or check row machines.

Derivatives

check-rowed adj. planted in check-rows.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [adjective] > planted > in check-rows
check-rowed1888
1888 Sci. Amer. LVIII. 298/1 Particularly for use on growing check-rowed and listed corn.
check-rower n. a corn-planter, or a device attached to one, dropping the seed-corn in check-rows.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > apparatus for sowing > machine for sowing in drills > drill for sowing corn
corn-planter1839
check-rower1882
1882 Belleville (Illindis) Advocate 9 June 4/4 (advt.) Haworth Check Rowers, with Wire or Cord.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 191/2 Check-rower.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

checkn.3

Scottish.
= chack n. 3, the Wheat-ear.
ΚΠ
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VII. 547 The check, the linnet, and the sparrow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

checkv.1

Brit. /tʃɛk/, U.S. /tʃɛk/
Forms: Middle English–1500s chek(e, Middle English chekk-yn, (Scottish chak), Middle English–1500s chek, 1500s–1600s checke, 1700s cheque, checque, (Scottish1800s chack), 1500s– check.
Etymology: Middle English chek-en , aphetic < achek-, *eschek-, < Old French eschequier , eschecqu-er (in Old Northern French eskek-ier ) to play chess, give check to; also in past participle eschequié , Cotgrave eschequé , Italian scaccato , medieval Latin scaccātus chequered, < check n.1, eschec , eskek , scacco , check n.1
I. To place or come into opposition; to clash.
1.
a. Chess. To attack the opponent's King by placing a man so that he could, at his next move, take the King if the latter were an ordinary piece; to give check to, place in check. Cf. check int. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [verb (transitive)] > check
check1614
1614 A. Saul Famous Game Chesse-play To Rdr. sig. A4v But as they [sc.pawns] march who so they finde doe in their colour stande, Such may they kill or checke aslope to the right or left hand.
1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play So also doth he [the pawn] check, (that is give notice to) the adverse King that he can take him.
1825 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Poems (1860) 390 We check and take, exult and fret.
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 42.
b. figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)]
assail?c1225
to set on ——c1290
saila1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
to set against ——c1330
impugnc1384
offendc1385
weighc1386
checka1400
to lay at?a1400
havec1400
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
rehetea1450
besail1460
fray1465
tuilyie1487
assaulta1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
sturt1513
attempt1546
lay1580
tilt1589
to fall aboard——1593
yoke1596
to let into1598
to fall foul1602
attack1655
do1780
to go in at1812
to pitch into ——1823
tackle1828
vampire1832
bushwhack1837
to go for ——1838
take1864
pile1867
volcano1867
to set about ——1879
vampirize1888
to get stuck into1910
to take to ——1911
weigh1941
rugby-tackle1967
rugger-tackle1967
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > check (in) a course of action
stanchc1315
arrestc1374
checka1400
stem?c1450
stay1525
to take up1530
rebate1532
suspend1565
nip1575
countercheck1590
to nip in the bud1590
to clip the wings ofa1593
to nip in (also by, on) the head (also neck, pate)1594
trasha1616
to scotch the wheels of1648
spike1687
spoke1854
to pull up1861
a1400 Cov. Myst. xxx. 306 What? spek I say, thou foulyng, evyl mot thou fare! Loke up, the devyl mote the cheke!
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 75v And so perhaps she might both checke And giue the foole a mate.
1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 9 Such dydoppers must be taken vp, els theile not stick to check the king.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 123.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. xvi. 51 The Church men..checked them often, but could never give them the mate.
†2.
a. To come into collision with, strike, hit. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge upon [verb (transitive)]
hita1400
strike1530
check1576
impinge1605
impinge1777
1576 S. Gosson Speculum Humanum in H. Kerton tr. Pope Innocent III Mirror Mans Lyfe (new ed.) The prime of youth, whose greene vnmellowde yeares With hoysed head doth checke the loftie skies.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. i. sig. B2 And when he rid, his Hatt would check the signes.
†b. intransitive. To clash, come into hostile contact or collision. Const. with. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > meet in battle
meeteOE
to meet withc1325
abattlec1400
recounter1455
check1535
to come up against1535
entertain1555
yoke1581
cope1594
conflict1599
clash1650
engage1697
engage1698
1535 Goodly Primer To Rdr. (1834) 8 Neither is it meet to make them [saints] check with our Saviour Christ, much less then to make them checkmate.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 79 For if it [sc. Loue] checke once with businesse, it troubleth Mens fortunes.
1632 Stow's Chron. 742 There checked with him at the entring thwart the Towne, sixe Gallies: but they in short time retired vnder their fortresses.
II. To stop sharply or suddenly.
3. To arrest, stop, or retard the onward motion or course of (a person or thing).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of
withdrawa1300
check1393
stayc1440
stopc1440
acheckc1450
dead1602
deaden1661
in1825
still1850
the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > reduce (speed) > cause to reduce speed
check1393
slow1557
lag1570
slack1577
slacken1580
slug1605
trasha1616
overslow1619
beslowa1644
steady1812
to slow up1868
decelerate1899
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 2093 When they metten in that place, They wer a-cheked bothe two.]
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 287 Barre we þe ȝates. Cheke we and cheyne we and eche chyne stoppe.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 596/2 The vnrestrainable ambitious mind of the man, that euen from his youth was euer to checke at the highest.
1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 25 As one who checks a fiend-drawn charioteer.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §7. 51 Asperities..which incessantly check its [an avalanche's] descent.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire ii. 6 Few fortresses checked the march of [the] armies.
4. spec.
†a. ? To challenge (a sentinel). (Cf. check-watch n. at check- comb. form 2.) Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 817 To chak the wache Wallace and x had beyn Rydand about.
b. Nautical. to check a bowline: to slacken it and belay it again. to check a brace: to ease it off when found to be too stiffly extended. to check a cable: to stopper it, when running out. check her (a ship): stop her way. (Adm. Smyth.)
ΚΠ
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 94 Check her as she swings.
c. To pull (a rein).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > control with reins > pull (a rein)
richc1540
checkc1720
to pull up1787
c1720 J. Gay Story of Apparition And now he checks the rein, and halts.
c1720 J. Gay Birth of Squire O check the foamy bit! nor tempt thy fate: Think on the murders of a five barr'd gate.
5.
a. intransitive (for reflexive). To stop short; to stand at; to wince, take offence (at).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > stop short in some activity
to break offc1340
persist1563
check1635
to stop short1727
to pull in1780
jib1812
stall1923
the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be or become resentful [verb (intransitive)]
to pick (also peck) mooda1225
disdaina1382
endeigna1382
indeign1382
risec1390
to take offencea1393
to take pepper in the nose1520
stomach1557
offenda1578
sdeigna1593
huff1598
to snuff pepper1624
check1635
to bear, owe (a person) a grudge1657
to take check1663
to take (‥) umbrage1683
to ride rusty1709
to flame out, up1753
to take a niff1777
niff1841
spleen1885
to put one's shoulder out1886
to have (or get) the spike1890
derry1896
the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > be unwilling [verb (reflexive)]
sunyie1488
check1635
the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > come to a stand or stop
abideOE
atstandc1000
steveneta1225
atstuntc1230
to make, take, etc., stallc1275
stema1300
astandc1314
withstanda1325
stintc1374
arrestc1400
stotec1400
stayc1440
steadc1475
stop short1530
disadvance1610
come1611
consist1611
check1635
halt1656
to bring to1697
to draw up1767
to bring up1769
to pull up1781
to fetch up1838
to come to a standstill1852
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes To Rdr. sig. A3 Let not the tender Eye checke, to see the allusion to our blessed Saviour figured, in these Types.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Little French Lawyer iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. I4/2 A true friend should not Checke at the hazard of a life.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne v. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggggg3/1 I tamely beare Wrongs, which a slave-born Muscovite would check at.
1657 Bp. J. Taylor Let. in Evelyn's Mem. (1857) III. 98 That which you check at is the immortality of the soul.
1689 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) xli. 321 You may feel him check and tug at it.
1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. Pref. 34 No man checks or takes offence at customs or ceremonies, he sees every day.
1901 R. Kipling Kim vi. 137 In the forenoon the column checked.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 254 Even in the midst of the swing he checked, glanced once at the spitting fuse, and with a stoop and a heave flung the officer out over the front parapet.
1962 Times 12 July 4/1 His chip back just caught the top of the bank and checked.
b. Hunting. Of dogs: To stop through loss of scent, or to make sure of its direction.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > lose scent
check1735
to throw up1789
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 255 Ah! yet once more They're check'd—hold back with speed—on either Hand They flourish round.
1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) iii. 38 At last they struck upon the scent of the blood, and they checked for a moment to make sure.
6. Hawking.
a. to check at the fist: to refuse to come to, recoil from, ‘shy’ at the fist.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > actions of hawk, etc.
mutea1475
mutessa1475
to put overa1475
feat1508
to check at the fista1529
feakc1575
souse1589
to clip it1616
embowel1618
unenterpen1647
gather1674
enterpen1736
scatter1771
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > refuse to come to
to check at the fista1529
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 732 Till he cheked at the fist.
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 94v The hauke may check, that now comes fair to fiist.
1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xi. 37 She will neuer vnderstand what it is to checke at the fist: but..wil proue a certaine and bold commer.
b. See quot. 1615, 1852; and cf. check n.1 6a.Sir Walter Scott's archaic use appears to be erroneous, since one falcon does not ‘check’ at another, and Marmion would not figure himself as ‘base game’ crossing the path of nobler quarry.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > fly away from quarry
to rake out (also away, off)1575
to turn tail1575
to turn taila1586
check1615
to fly at check1667
1615 S. Latham Falconry (new ed.) Words of Art expl. Checke, or to kill Checke, is when Crows, Rooks, Pies, or other birds comming in the view of the Hawke, she forsaketh her naturall flight to flie at them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. i. 63 Like the Haggard, checke at euery Feather That comes before his eye. View more context for this quotation
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. vi. 28 E'en such a falcon, on his shield..The golden legend bore aright, ‘Who checks at me, to death is dight.’
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iii. 31 She ‘checked’ first at one bird, then at the other. [Note] To ‘check’ is to forsake the quarry, and fly at any chance bird that crosses the path.
†7. transitive. To keep back or off from. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > intercept or cut off (light) [verb (transitive)] > of (some luminary)
shadowc1430
adumber1535
check1589
blanch1793
1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 55 A wreath of bowes, To check the sunne from hir browes.
†8. To reject, throw back. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject
awarpc1000
forwerpeOE
warpc1000
nillOE
warnc1300
reprovec1350
to put abacka1382
to throw awaya1382
repugnc1384
to put awaya1387
waivec1386
forshoota1400
disavowc1400
defyc1405
disprovec1430
repelc1443
flemea1450
to put backa1500
reject?1504
refutea1513
repulse1533
refel1548
repudiate1548
disallowa1555
project?1567
expel1575
discard1578
overrule1578
forsay1579
check1601
decard1605
dismiss1608
reprobate1609
devow1610
retorta1616
disclaimc1626
noforsootha1644
respuate1657
reluctate1668
negative1778
no-ball1862
basket1867
to set one's foot down1873
not to have any (of it, that, this)1895
to put down1944
eighty-six1959
neg1987
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 404 A spring boiling out of the ground with such a force, that it scorneth and checketh any thing that is throwne into it.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. i. 13 Those Easterly Monsoons always bring strong Currents with them from the Eastward, which check'd him over to the Coast of Magadoxa.
†9. To stop (a person) from receiving a part of his wages as a fine or penalty; to fine, mulct. to be checked: to have one's wages stopped. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [verb (transitive)]
mulct?a1475
gersum1483
unlaw1508
finea1513
check1526
to be put to one's fine1542
punish1552
forfeitc1592
tinsel1609
sconce1641
physic1821
to fix (a person) with liability1833
log1889
1526 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 233 To be checkt of three dayes Wages.
1539–40 Ordinances Officers of Househ. in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) p. xxxiv The Clerkes Comptrolers..shall dayly..default and check the Wages of all such as he shall finde to be absent without lycence.
1618 in E. F. Rimbault Old Cheque-bk. Chapel Royal (1872) 75 For all these thinges..he shalbe checked the soume of forty shillinges to be staied to his Majestes use out of wages next growinge and due to him.
1705 Royal Procl. in London Gaz. No. 4166/1 All such Mariners..shall be Chequed out of Wages only from the respective Times they ought to have returned.
1736 Gen. List or Catal. Offices & Officers 219 in Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 32) If any Gentleman-Pensioner in Ordinary fail in his attendance, he shall be chequed with the loss of three days' wages.
1803 Naval Chron. 15 61 If they do not attend their musters, they are checked of their pay.
III. To taunt, etc.
†10. To reproach, taunt, revile. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)]
edwitec825
shendc897
lehtriec1000
atwiteOE
gaba1200
begredec1200
tucka1225
reprove?1316
braidc1325
abraidc1330
upbraida1340
reprocec1350
reprucec1350
umbraida1393
reproacha1400
brixlec1400
saya1470
embraid1481
outbraid1509
check1526
twit1530
entwite1541
broide1546
taunt1560
upbray1581
improperate1623
betwit1661
to jack up1896
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Diiiiv Nother yet vpbrayd ne checke hym.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Mark xv. f. lxixv And they that were crucified with him, checked him also [so 1539 Cranmer, 1557 Geneva].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 482/2.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) John ix. 28 Then checked they hym, and sayd, Be thou his disciple: we be Moses disciples.
1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. Dv With these speeches they did checke me, and I saide, that I trusted God..would defend my prince better, then to deliuer her into the handes of her enimies, wherefore they did greatly reuile me.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 49.
11. To rebuke, reprove, reprimand. Also with off. Formerly archaic or dialect. Now colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Niiij Styll mayst thou stande, or els shall thou be chect.
1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Cv Landlordes by the wai checked for Rent-raisyng.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 77 He checked the Generals for their slacknesse.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 346 His majestie yesterday checkt a young lord for swearing within his hearing.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 75. ⁋15 The parson made no difficulty to check me when I was pert.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iv. 160 The little Flower her vanity shall check . View more context for this quotation
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xii. 221 Young enough to be checked for speech on subjects which they had spoken mistakenly about when he was in his cradle.
1920 F. M. Ford Let. 30 May (1965) 100 I offered you the Heaven volume for nothing in '17 & was just checked off as if I had been a literary beginner.
1931 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 725 This morning I was hut orderly, and got checked for dull brass door-knobs.
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 38 Check, to reprimand, take to task, during the exercise of one's duty.
†12. intr. to check at: to aim reproof or censure at; to animadvert severely upon. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > dispraise or discommend [verb (transitive)] > censure or condemn
bidemea1200
convictc1366
reprovea1382
damnc1386
condemna1400
deema1400
saya1400
judgec1400
reprehendc1400
reproacha1475
reprobate?a1475
arguec1475
controlc1525
twit1543
perstringe1549
tax1569
traduce1581
carp1591
censure1605
convince?1606
syndic1609
syndicate1610
to check at1642
reprimand1660
impeach1813
to stroke over1822
1642 View of Print. Bk. 4 How he checks at the King for using the word [Grace].
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 373 Tiberius hereupon sent letters to the Senate, severely checking at Caninius.
IV. To restrain, control.
13. (figurative from 3.) To stop (action, growth, exhibition of feeling, and the like); to stay the course of; to repress, restrain.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
batec1300
stanch1338
stinta1350
to put awayc1350
arrestc1374
finisha1375
terminec1390
achievea1393
cease1393
removec1405
terminate?a1425
stop1426
surceasec1435
resta1450
discontinue1474
adetermine1483
blina1500
stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)]
pindeOE
steerc950
hold971
forbidc1000
withstewc1175
withholdc1200
stewa1225
crempa1250
bistintc1300
i-stillc1315
withdraw1340
entemperc1380
rebukec1380
forfenda1382
refraina1382
refrainc1390
restraina1393
restayc1400
retainc1415
to hold abackc1440
overholda1450
reclaim?c1450
revokec1450
bedwynge1480
sniba1500
repressa1525
rein1531
inhibit1535
to keep back1535
cohibit1544
reprimec1550
lithe1552
to rein up1574
check1581
embridle1583
to rein in1593
retrench1594
refrenate1599
to hold back1600
snip1601
becheck1605
sneap1611
trasha1616
supersede1645
reprimand1689
snape1691
to clap a guy on1814
to pull up1861
to pull in1893
withstrain1904
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (reflexive)]
withholdc1200
withdrawc1290
defendc1350
abstainc1380
holda1400
deport1477
forbear1535
check1581
detract1637
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > check (in) a course of action > repress growth, feeling, etc.
rebukec1475
check1581
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > exercise moderation or restraint [verb (reflexive)]
hold971
withholdc1200
containc1290
keep1340
restraina1387
refrainc1450
retaina1500
attemper1548
retract1548
temper1560
reserve1586
check1833
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxviii. 107 The execution being chekt with a number of accidentarie occurrences, which art cannot comprehend.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xv. sig. B4 Men as plants increase, Cheared and checkt euen by the selfe-same skie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 211 If I can checke my erring loue, I will, If not, to compasse her Ile vse my skill. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 853 Half his strength he put not forth, but check'd His Thunder in mid Volie. View more context for this quotation
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 188 His Fury was checked.
1799 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1845) III. 313 The scurvy cannot be checked.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. x. 111 She could perceive that he was rather offended; and therefore checked her laugh. View more context for this quotation
1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last 157 The multiplication of animals is checked only by want of food, and by the hostility of races.
1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xx. 149 Mr. Baldwin checked the enthusiasm of his visitors.
reflexive.1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) x. 109 He..was about to cover his face with his hands, but checked himself.1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iii. 37 She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself.
14.
a. To hold in check or restraint; to curb, control; to act as a check on.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (transitive)] > hold in check
bridleOE
tempera1050
chastec1230
to hold inc1300
straina1340
stintc1366
attemperc1380
restraina1387
rulea1391
ward1390
coarctc1400
obtemper?a1425
to hold or keep (a person) shortc1425
compesce1430
stent1488
coactc1520
repressa1525
compress1526
control1548
snaffle1555
temperatea1568
brank1574
halter1577
curb1588
shortena1599
to bear (a rein) upon1603
check1629
coerceate1657
bit1825
throttle1862
hold1901
1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 88 Checke..the peruersnesse of mens wills.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xxv. 155 To check this fort, the Christians built a towre on ships.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 66 Have they not been bold of late to check the Common Law?
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xiv. 241 These Arts..have a natural Tendency towards Corruption, unless checked and chastised by wholesome Institutions.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 299 In England, the strong classes check the weaker.
1877 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (ed. 3) viii. 172 Cases in which one train of physical consequences is checked by the operation of another.
b. To rein. poetic.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a horse-drawn vehicle > rein horses
check1595
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. vi. 12 Oh Phœbus hadst thou neuer giuen consent, That Phaeton should checke thy fierie steedes.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 39 While Cynthia checks her Dragon yoke, Gently o're th'accustom'd Oke.
†15. intransitive. To act as a check upon. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restrain [verb (intransitive)] > hold in check
check1678
restrain1733
1678 J. Dryden All for Love iii. 31 Lead to the Temple: I'll avoid his presence; It checks too strong upon me.
16.
a. transitive. To control (a statement, account, etc.) by some method of comparison; to compare one account, observation, entry, etc., with another, or with certified data, with the object of ensuring accuracy and authenticity. Also to check a person (in his account, execution of duty, etc.).
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > test accuracy or correctness of > by comparison
control1523
check1695
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > assure, make certain [verb (transitive)] > establish as fact, ascertain > by comparison
control1523
check1695
cross-check1896
1695 Minutes of Court of Bank of Eng. 15 May Ordered that these words following vizt. ‘This note to be currant onely for a Twelvemonth and may bee chequ'd att the Bank, when desired, gratis’ Bee added at the Bottome of the New Bank Notes [i.e. cash notes].
1695 Minutes of Court of Bank of Eng. 21 Aug. Ordered that noe Bank Bills brought in bee either allowed or paid or changed till they bee first checqued.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Check, to compare a bank note or other bill with the correspondent paper.
1758 Let. to Mayor wherein Discouragem. of Seamen are Examined 24 The Commissioners..are not possessed of the Books..of other Vouchers, whereby they can examine and check these Tickets.
1758 Let. to Mayor wherein Discouragem. of Seamen are Examined 35 Dead and discharged Tickets..are paid at the Navy-Office, without being chequed.
1769 Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 164 The one observation checqued with the other, will..differ by the quantity of 31′.
1774 J. Barclay et al. Compl. Eng. Dict. Check vb...in Commerce, to compare the flourished or ornamented part of a draught or bank bill with that which remains in the book from whence it was cut.
1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 398 I have checked this account..and find it to be correct.
1802 Naval Chron. 8 382 The..clerks..check the weights.
1880 Manch. Guard. 15 Dec. We have no means of checking all these statements.
b. to check off: to mark as examined and found correct; to ‘tick off’ as passed or duly entered.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with ticks
prick1536
to check off1839
tick1854
to mark off1875
tick-off1934
the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > try or test [verb (transitive)] > test accuracy or correctness of > by comparison > mark as checked
to check off1839
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 145 Nearly every other member..pulled a written paper from his pocket, to check Mr. Pugstyles off, as he read the questions.
1884 Harper's Mag. June 46/2 The signer's name is..checked off on the..list by a third officer.
c. To accept or hand over (an article) in return for a check (see check n.1 14b); to send to a destination in this way. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > hand over to another > check in bags, coats, etc.
check1846
society > travel > transport > [verb (transitive)] > cause to be conveyed or send > send in return for token or ticket
check1846
the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > pledge or deposit as security [verb (transitive)] > accept or hand over article in return for check
check1846
1846 Daily Evening Traveller (Boston) 16 July 3/2 Passengers..will consult their comfort and convenience by being particular to have their Baggage ‘checked’.
1860 Congress. Globe 21 Dec. 177/2 It is a great convenience to the traveling public to be able to check baggage through.
1866 Congress. Globe 20 July 3972/3 The Baltimore road..will not check baggage from here to any point in the West. They..compel you to recheck your baggage.
1888 Amer. Humorist 21 July (Farmer) Turning to the man who checks umbrellas and canes.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 25 Feb. 10/2 [U.S.] Remove your hats during the performance. You can check them with the maid.
1922 Publishers' Circular 21 Jan. 43/2 We began to require all persons..to check these books at the coat-rooms.
1956 ‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump 4 They walked out into..the club and checked their hats.
d. to check up (on) (also to check on): to examine carefully or in detail; to maintain a check on; to ascertain the truth about; also absol.; to check out, to investigate, examine for accuracy, authenticity, or a confirmation of fitness. Originally U.S.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > close examination, scrutiny > scrutinize [verb (transitive)] > assess conduct, suitability, etc.
sift1573
to watch a person's water1640
to put (a horse, etc.) through (its, etc.) paces1766
to check up (on) (also to check on)1911
vet1924
process1925
to check out1962
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > process a cheque [verb (transitive)] > cash cheques, etc. > upon a person
draw1635
to check up (on) (also to check on)1911
1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xxiv. 309 In five years the experiment might enable me to check up some of my own conclusions.
1912 Amer. Hist. Rev. 819 There is..more chance to check up legislative ideals by the dry observations of chroniclers.
1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley xxvii. 291 He was trying to check up the defenders in the cabin.
1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 51 As the sailing hour approached, the staff and stewards were busy checking up.
1926 G. Hunting Vicarion xvi. 266 He..offered to set a condenser up for her in her own home where she could check up on any of his activities she desired.
1926 Publishers' Weekly (N.Y.) 19 June 1966/2 Nor do the parents think of checking up the reading matter [taken to camp].
1928 C. M. Fuess Men of Andover 13 Every effort has been made to check up on even the least important statements.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost ix. 92 These people will have to be checked up on.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iii. 212 I have never checked up on this.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iv. 248 One solid pleasure of love is to check up together on what has happened.
1942 in C. R. Bond & T. Anderson Flying Tiger's Diary (1984) v. 121 They have been flying Brewster Buffaloes and now are being checked out in Hurricanes.
1957 D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 127 Reading back through the book to check up on the implied parallel.
1959 Daily Mail 20 Feb. 10/6 The M.C.C. had a man placed either at mid-on or mid-off..obviously to check on me.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics ix. 388 Most hydraulic control systems have electrical components..thus necessitating two systems to install, check-out, and maintain.
1967 Landfall 21 243 A married man with a rich wife and a packet of kids... I checked him out.
1968 S. Challis Death on Quiet Beach v. 72 Kay. We'll check her out.
1968 Times 16 Dec. 7/4 To begin with, Apollo 8..will be parked in a 119-mile orbit while the crew check out the spacecraft.
e. to check in or out: to record the incoming or outgoing of (guests, employees, books, etc.). Also intransitive, to record one's arrival at or departure from a hotel, factory, etc. (frequently to check into or out of); to arrive or depart. Originally U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > record one's departure
to sign out1903
to check in or out1918
to book out1966
society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > register [verb (transitive)]
book?c1225
descrivec1325
registera1393
rollc1440
describea1475
regestc1475
act1492
enregister1523
registrate1570
to book up1577
matriculate1586
imbook1587
muster1587
immatriculate1602
imbreviate1609
re-register1807
to check in or out1918
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > record one's departure
to check in or out1918
society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)] > report one's arrival
report1815
to check in or out1918
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] > arrive > record arrival
report1815
to sign in1903
to check in or out1918
society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > work at specific times or periods [verb (intransitive)] > record arrival or departure
to sign on1862
to sign off1878
to punch the clock1890
to book off1891
to sign out1903
to clock off1904
to clock on1909
to punch out1913
to clock in1914
to clock out1914
to check in or out1952
1918 H. V. O'Brien Diary 23 Feb. in Wine, Women & War (1926) 35 R—— checked in 3.30, more than usually drunk.
1921 S. Ford Inez & Trilby May iii. 41 The singer person is checking out from the first floor suite next week.
1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xx. 217 ‘That aint my affair, where folks go after they check out,’ the proprietor said, turning his back.
1935 E. Bowen House in Paris iii. iv. 317 ‘Then we might get something to eat.’ ‘What, at the hotel?’ ‘I'll see; we'll check in these first, anyway.’
1936 J. Steinbeck In Dubious Battle i. 6 I checked out of my lodging-house before I came here.
1941 Amer. Speech 16 310/1 To check out or charge a book, the borrower fills out a call card.
1943 P. Cheyney You can always Duck ii. 28 He'll probably check in at some hotel.
1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 286 I was just going back to the hotel to check out.
1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Feb. 3 Two of them had checked out of the demonstration and packed up.
1951 Manch. Guardian Weekly 6 Sept. 3 He checked into his hotel.
1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iv. 66 The student was obliged to check in with the instructor for the requisite hours of studio or laboratory work.
1959 R. Gant World in Jug 60 We checked into our hotel near the Opéra and the boys joked about the bidets.
f. To note with, or indicate by, some mark.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on
betoken1382
signa1398
tokena1400
note1490
brand1587
countermark1611
signate1616
countersign1662
counter-note1665
lug-marka1699
check1928
1928 Publishers' Weekly 12 May 1973 For the reasons checked below, we regret that we cannot undertake the publication of your proposed book.
1929 Publishers' Weekly (N.Y.) 14 Sept. 1064 Check the titles you want and we will mail you the books at once.
1969 N.Y. Rev. Books 16 Jan. 35/3 (advt.) Please check appropriate squares and type..your name and address below.
g. intransitive. To agree upon comparison. U.S.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] > upon comparison
check1928
1928 Publishers' Weekly 22 Dec. 2491/2 One of the sheets,..checked closely with fiction which was found in the Gottschalk store.
1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xv. 140 It all checked pretty well.
1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xvii. 156 If there's finger-prints on it, and yours don't check, that'll let you out.
V. Other uses.
17. intransitive. To draw a cheque (upon a person, for an amount). U.S.
ΚΠ
1809 Deb. Congress 20 Feb. 416 The money..is deposited in the Treasury as in a bank..to be checked for, whenever that commerce..shall be again reopened.
1843 E. A. Poe Murders in Rue Morgue in Prose Romances 19 Had checked for nothing until the third day before her death, when she took out in person, the sum of 4000 francs.
1863 ‘S. L. Jones’ Life in South I. xvi. 323 To check upon him for $500.
18. transitive (a) Carpentry. To notch or halve (timbers) in making a cross joint. Scottish. (b) Masonry. To notch (one stone) into (another); also to check down. (c) To join (two pieces) in this manner ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1066 All plates to be in long lengths, and chacked.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1072 The rafters to be..chacked and spiked together.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1778 The stair to the cellars..to be droved; the steps to be checked down on (notched into) each other.
1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 678 The other 2 stones..are to be half-checked into it, also half-checked into each other where they meet in the middle.

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transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To look at, to appraise; to take notice of, to listen to. Frequently imperative, chiefly with the expectation of approval. Cf. to check out at sense 16d.
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1944 P. Kendall Dict. Service Slang 44 Check your hat.., means I take notice of your hat and very chic.
1953 J. Paxton Wild One (transcript from film) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 385/2 Hey, check the hot rod!
1960 G. F. Swarthout Where Boys Are i. 8 Biologically, they come to Florida to check the talent. By that I mean to inspect and select.
1979 T. Baum Carny 20 Check old fat boy.
1991 D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow i. 18 Check this. See the Queen on the dollar bill?
1997 Straight No Chaser Spring 19/3 Check also the AFMB remix of ‘High Hopes Part 2’ for some serious batacuda 'n' bass get down.

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transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). In imperative with out. As an invitation or recommendation: try (this), have a look at (this), listen to (this). check it out (esp. in African-American usage): take notice, listen; look.
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1949 D. Cooper & J. Davis Duchess of Idaho (transcript from film) in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1994) I. 386/1 Check it out!
1967 Black Panther 25 Apr. 4/1 Black People must realize that the time is short and growing shorter by the day. Check it out. People talk about ‘Power’... Black People..want Black Power.
1969 A. Baraka Black Magic 120 When you find yourself gesturing like Steve McQueen, check it out, ask in your black heart who it is you are.
1971 R. Thomas Backup Men ix. 82 Check out the new pastry chef.
1977 Rolling Stone 5 May 74/2 Check out the singing on ‘Taxman, Mr. Thief’, and tell me anyone has been more pissed off since John Lennon was primaled.
1985 B. Zephaniah Dread Affair 28 Check it out young ones, let our minds start thinking.
1990 G. Jacobs Doowutchalike (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 76 And though we're usually on the serious tip, check it out Tonight we're gonna flip and trip and let it all hang out.
2000 Pract. Classics June 46/3 Check out the long, power-bulged bonnet, the stubby tail, the tucked-under sills, the glitz and glitter.

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intransitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. to check out: to be confirmed or verified as accurate or authentic; (also) to prove to be healthy or in an acceptable condition.
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1956 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 16 Mar. 17 (comic strip) Everything checks out, Ed—the ad..the phone number..the valise and the girl!!
1961 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 7 Aug. ii. 1/3 Ruznak told police he was having trouble with the oil pressure gauge on his car... It checked out okay at the time the police tested it however.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 May The jersey was available for $300—well worth it..if it checks out as the genuine article.
1992 Men's Health May 36/2 My thyroid checked out okay, and the doctor said my arrhythmia was probably derived from a defect in the wiring of the heart.
1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 194/2 All right. His story checks out.

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intransitive. British slang (esp. among young black speakers). to check for: to like, rate, admire (music, a musician, etc.).
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1976 Sounds 11 Dec. 10/6 Delroy checks for (ie, digs) the Wailers.
1977 Sounds 1 Jan. 5/5 I checked for Delroy after hearing his first Virgin album.
1993 V. Headley Excess x. 87 D. liked the sound; he still checked for High Noon, but he thought the new sound had an edge, an authentic yard feel.
1996 Voice 25 June 28/1 Have you ever been listening to the radio and heard the DJ spin a record by an artist that you normally check for, but on this occasion the tune just ain't cuttin' it?

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intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to check out: to die. Cf. sense 16e.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
1921 W. Mason in Los Angeles Times 27 Apr. ii. 4/5 One balmy night he went to bed all full of pleasant schemes, and in the morning he was dead—he'd checked out in his dreams.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 16 I landed in the hospital with dysentery and I almost checked out.
1969 S. Faessler in R. Sullivan Stories by Canad. Women (1984) 229 You'd better get down here... I think the old man's checking out.
1999 S. Rushdie Ground beneath her Feet (2000) xi. 322 For one hundred and fifty seconds he genuinely checked out, kicked the bucket.

Draft additions June 2015

intransitive. Darts. to check out: to win a leg by scoring the exact number of points that will reduce one's score to zero during a turn; (also) to win a leg using a particular number of darts. Frequently with in, on. In most variations of the game, a player must finish by hitting a double or the bullseye.
ΚΠ
1939 Whitstable Times 27 May 6/3 His first dart took a single and his second dart checked out with double four.
1977 Daily Mirror 26 Sept. 27/3 It ended with Jim checking out for a 3–1 win.
1996 Daily Record (Nexis) 2 Jan. 50 Taylor checked out on double 15.
2006 B. George & L. Hardy Bobby Dazzler vi. 57 My fondest memory of him is of two successive legs that we played at the King George, when I checked out both times in nine darts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

checkv.2

Brit. /tʃɛk/, U.S. /tʃɛk/
Forms: Also 1700s–1800s checque, 1800s cheque.
Etymology: Goes with check n.2, either as short for chequer n.1; or aphetic < *escheck , < Old French eschequier , in Godefroy only in past participle eschequié , eschiqué in same sense; in English also the past participle, checked adj.2, is the part most in use.
1.
a. transitive. To mark with a chessboard pattern, mark out or cut in squares (obsolete); to mark with a pattern of crossing lines.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > divide [verb (transitive)] > into sections or compartments > into squares
checkc1440
chequer1601
the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > chequer [verb (transitive)]
counterchange1614
chequer1633
check1798
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > geometric
diaperc1400
chevron1543
diaprize1626
chequer1633
dice1694
check1798
herringbone1887
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 72 Chekkyn [1499 checken], scaccifico.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 141 Whan ye þat venesoun so haue chekkid hit, with þe fore parte of youre knyfe þat ye hit owt kytt.
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.vi Custarde cheke them inche square that your souerayne may ete therof.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 4 June 239/1 Sweet kerchief, check'd with heav'nly blue.
b. To mark (ground) for planting in checks. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > plant plants [verb (transitive)] > mark for planting in check-pattern
check1768
1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 265 At the first and last of which [plantations I] just began to check Corn G[roun]d.
1871 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1869–70 8 239 After the field has been thoroughly prepared..proceed to check it off from east to west with a three-rowed marker.
1945 B. A. Botkin Lay My Burden Down 168 And checking corn is running a straight row clean 'cross the field both ways.
c. transitive and intransitive. To split or crack along crossing lines.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > crack, split, or cleave
chinea700
to-chinec725
cleavea1225
to-cleavec1275
rivec1330
to-slentc1380
to-sundera1393
cracka1400
rifta1400
chapc1420
crevec1450
break1486
slave?1523
chink1552
chop1576
coame1577
cone1584
slat1607
cleft1610
splita1625
checka1642
chicka1642
flaw1648
shale1712
vent1721
spalt1731
star1842
seam1880
tetter1911
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure
to-slita1250
rivea1400
slatterc1400
chapc1460
chip1508
gaig1584
spleet1585
split1595
chink1599
chawn1602
slent1605
slat1607
sliver1608
speld1616
crevice1624
checka1642
chicka1642
crack1664
splice1664
sleave-
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 17 The sunne shoulde not checke and rive them [sc. wooden stakes].
1879 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Check,..to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, and the like.
1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 398 The streaks of the clinker-built canoe rarely check, the wood being generally well seasoned.
1903 A. J. Collier in U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. No. 213. 277 The coal is not crushed, but can be obtained in large pieces which ‘check’ but do not break up readily on exposure to the air.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 154/2 Checking, a defect in a painted surface, characterised by the appearance of fissures in all directions.
2. transferred. To variegate with rays or bands of different colours; to chequer. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > stripe [verb (transitive)] > broad stripe
check1589
belt1783
band1853
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G3 He..checkt the night with the golden rayes that gleamed from his lookes.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 184 A glimpse of moonlight checq'd the plain.
†3. figurative. To chequer, diversify, cloud. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > make varied or diversify [verb (transitive)] > mix or jumble
jumperc1374
jumble1542
hotchpotch1573
shuffle1593
pell-mell1606
chequerc1632
hash1654
hodge-podge1773
check1790
gallimaufry1831
commix1847
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xiv. 21 Their first setting forth was checked with bad successe.]
1790 Town Talk 5 The boy's countenance, that was chequed and overcast with blindness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

checkint.n.1

Brit. /tʃɛk/, U.S. /tʃɛk/
Forms: Middle English–1500s chek, (Middle English cheke, cheekke, Middle English chekke, Middle English chicke, chak), 1500s–1800s checque, 1600s–1800s cheque, (1600s cheeque), Middle English– check.
Etymology: Middle English chek , chak , aphetic < *eschek, -chak, < Old French eschec , -ek , -eq , eschac , in Old Northern French eskec , escac , Provençal escac , Italian scacco ‘check’ in chess, medieval Latin scaccus , scāchus ; compare also the parallel forms Spanish jaque , Old Spanish xaque ‘check’, Portuguese xaque ‘check’ and ‘shah’ (of Persia). Adapted form (immediately from Arabic) of Persian shāh ‘king’, also the ‘King’ in chess; in this specific sense the Persian word was taken into Arabic, where arose the phrase shāh māt(a , ‘the King is dead’, i.e. can make no further move: see checkmate adj. (This has been taken back into Persian in the form shāh māt gardad = the shāh becomes māt .) In a manuscript written in Sevilla in 1283, shāh is made in Old Spanish xaque (x = sh ), and shāh māt(a appears as xaque mate . But the adoption of the words in Romanic took place some centuries earlier, the common Romanic form taken by shāh being scāc- , scacc- , as in the medieval Latin, Italian, Provençal, and French forms given above. Thence also the Middle High German schāch , German schach , Dutch skaak , Icelandic skák , Danish skak , Swedish schack ‘check’ and ‘chess’ (in the latter sense also schach-spiel , skaakspel , etc. = check-play). The general meaning in Romanic is ‘check’; for the name of the game the plural is used in medieval Latin scacci , Italian scacchi , Provençal escacos , French échecs : see chess n.1From its use in chess the word has been widely transferred in French and English. In the sense-extension the noun and verb have acted and reacted on each other, so that it is difficult to trace and exhibit the order in which special senses arose.
A. int.
1. A call at chess by which notice is given to the opponent that a move has been made which exposes his King; one says also check to your king! and even check to your queen! Also figurative.
†check-rook: the call of check when at the same time one of the rooks is threatened with capture.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [interjection] > check or checkmate
checkc1330
checkmatec1390
matec1450
c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 426 Ate ches þai sett hem to playn..Þurch a chek Fabour seyd, for soþ, Sadok in hert wex wroþ.
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 669 Therewith Fortune said Checke here, And mate in the mid point of the checkere.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. ii. 168 The kynge..ought to take hede that he stande not soo that a knyght or an other saith chek rook, than the kyng loseth ye rook.
1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 8 No piece can take him [the king], but must only salute him with the word check.
1791 W. Taylor tr. Lessing Nathan ii. i. (Tauchn. 1868) 41 (Saladin & Sittah playing chess) Sittah. I move—So—Now then—Check! and Check again!
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 45 When a player gives check, and fails to give notice by crying ‘Check!’ his adversary need not, unless he think proper, place his king out of check, or cover.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xxxix. 187 ‘Check, certainly,’ said Flaxman to himself ruefully..‘not mate, I hope, if one can but find out how not to be a fool in future.’
2. Used to express assent or agreement. (Cf. check v.1 16a) U.S. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assent > [interjection]
right1594
do1601
sure1651
all right1814
OK1839
ryebuck1859
yassuh1871
achcha1892
righto1893
same here1896
quaiss kitir1898
check1922
righty-ho1926
oke1929
okey-dokey1932
okey-doke1934
okle-dokle1947
cool1948
seen1973
aight1993
1922 S. Ford Trilby May crashes In iii. 54 ‘I have felt all along that—’ ‘Check!’ says I. ‘I get the picture.’
1929 S. V. Benét in Sel. Works (1942) II. 407 ‘First, you're pizen-sure this man is—’ ‘A cat. Yeah.’..‘Check.’
1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) vi. 178 ‘So let's dance.’ ‘Check and double check,’ said Helene, and got up.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely vii. 48 ‘You are Philip Marlowe, a private detective?’ ‘Check.’ ‘Oh—you mean, yes.’
1968 ‘L. Bruce’ Death on Romney Marsh xvi. 176 ‘Tell her..I've found out all she wants to know.’ ‘Check.’
B. n.1
1. Chess. The act of threatening the King; the position of the King when he is exposed to the attack of one of the opponent's men; if there is no escape from check, it is checkmate and the game is over.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > check or checkmate
matec1330
mating?a1400
checkc1426
checkmatec1440
scholar's mate1614
fool's mate1618
scholar's check1674
perpetual check1750
smothered mate1804
sui-mate1846
selfmate1848
perpetual1966
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 21 After chec fore þe roke, ware fore þe mate.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Donner vn eschec, to giue a check.
1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. D3 Chesse..is a game, said she, that the first daunger is but a checke, the worst, the giuing of a mate.
1614 A. Saul Famous Game Chesse-play To Rdr. sig. A5 None of the Kings can take a man that standeth on a guard, 'Twere checke at once if he doe so.
1656 F. Beale tr. G. Greco Royall Game Chesse-play 5 The Knight's..check, because it cannot be covered, the King must either remove out of check, or cause him to be taken..[else] it is Check mate.
1848 H. Staunton Chess-player's Handbk. 20 When the Piece moved does not itself give check, but unmasks another which does, it is called a discovered check.
?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 42 When your King is attacked by any piece he is said to be in check..you must then put your King out of check by..interposing one of your own men between the checking piece and your King, thus ‘covering’ check, as it is termed.
†2. In early use, figurative and transferred, in various shades of meaning, referring in some way to the ‘check’ in chess. Obsolete.
a. An attack.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
fiend-reseOE
frumresec1275
assault1297
sault1297
inracea1300
sailing13..
venuea1330
checkc1330
braid1340
affrayc1380
outrunningc1384
resinga1387
wara1387
riota1393
assailc1400
assayc1400
onset1423
rake?a1425
pursuitc1425
assemblinga1450
brunta1450
oncominga1450
assembly1487
envaya1500
oncomea1500
shovea1500
front1523
scry1523
attemptate1524
assaulting1548
push1565
brash1573
attempt1584
affront?1587
pulse1587
affret1590
saliaunce1590
invasion1591
assailment1592
insultation1596
aggressa1611
onslaught1613
source1616
confronta1626
impulsion1631
tentative1632
essaya1641
infall1645
attack1655
stroke1698
insult1710
coup de main1759
onfall1837
hurrah1841
beat-up of quarters1870
offensive1887
strafe1915
grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1820 Þey handled boþe sore þer nekkes, Chynnes, chekes, gef harde chekkes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 231 In sodeyn reses and chekkes [L. incursionibus].
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1986 Ffor-thi the kynge chargez hym..Cheftayne of the cheekke, with chevalrous knyghttez.
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1238 He watz mayster of his men & myȝty him seluen, Þe chef of his cheualrye his chekkes to make.
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 232 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 289 And fergy flitsy ȝeid befoir, chiftane of that cheif chak.
b. to win or achieve a check: to succeed in inflicting a reverse or defeat on the foe; to win an advantage in a contest.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > victory > be victorious [verb (intransitive)]
overcomea1200
win1297
conquerc1300
to bear, fang, have the flower (of)c1310
vanquish1382
to win one's shoesa1400
to win or achieve a checka1400
triumph1508
vince1530
import1600
victorize1641
beat1744
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)]
risec1175
to have the higher handa1225
to have the besta1393
bettera1400
vaila1400
to win or achieve a checka1400
surmount1400
prevaila1425
to have (also get) the better handa1470
to go away with it1489
to have the besta1500
to have (also get, etc.) the better (or worse) end of the staff1542
to have ita1616
to have (also get) the laugh on one's side1672
top1718
beat1744
to get (also have) the right end of the stick1817
to have the best of1846
to go one better1856
a1400–50 Alexander 3098 Was noȝt Sexes him-selfe þe souereynest in erth, And cheued him of cheualry chekis out of nombre.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1539 We hafe eschewede this chekke, thurghe chance of oure Lorde.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1107 & quat chek so ȝe acheue, chaunge me þer-forne.
c1400 Rowland & O. lxxi A noble cheke here wonn hafe ȝee.
c. An act that gives trouble, or is harmful; an evil turn or trick.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil deed > [noun]
unwrenchc897
checkc1330
trippetc1330
wretchednessc1380
iniquities1477
feat1481
dog-trick?c1550
malefice1591
mistreading1598
meschantery1634
dog's trick1742
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > trick or scheme
unwrenchc897
un-i-wrenchc1275
checkc1330
trippetc1330
wrest14..
knavery1528
foist1607
spiel1901
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 258 Þou has broken it alle, & don him many ille chek.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 107 (Ld. Ilchester's MS.) Þair sire..chastised not his children of her euel chekkes.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4042 It was Amalekes That hath doon him so foule chekkes.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 914 When Beryn passid was .vij. yeer, & grewe in more age, He wrouȝt ful many an evill chek.
d. Contention; quarrel; strife.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun]
sakea1000
chestc1000
pleac1275
threapa1300
noisec1300
checkc1330
debate1340
chopping1377
controversyc1384
briguea1398
tuilyieing1444
quarrellingc1460
lite1493
frayinga1500
falling out1539
square1545
overthwarting1552
mutiny1567
squaring1579
debatement1590
swaggeringa1596
quarrel1605
simultation1605
warbling1632
barrating1635
throwing1897
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 100 In alle þis ilk chek of Roberd & Henry, Bituex þam wex contek.
†3. A taunting call; a bitter reproach. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun] > instance of
upbraida1200
parablec1350
abraid?a1439
taunt?1499
tench1513
touch1522
exprobration1526
checka1529
twit1528
upbray1590
reproach1611
upcast1669
slow clap1937
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aiiiiv Let se this checke yf ye voyde canne.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kiv Jacke with the busshe shal tant the with a checke.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Rom. xii. f. xxxv Yf any man perhappes offende you, gyue not checke for checke, ne one wrong for an other.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Coming Holy Ghost i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 458 Counted woorthy to suffer rebukes, and checkes for the Name..of Christ Jesus.
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth Introd. 10 Shee loaded her with checks and taunts.
†4.
a. A reproof, reprimand, rebuke. Obsolete exc. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun] > instance of
admonishingc1350
reproofc1400
fliting1435
rebuke?a1439
snibc1450
reprehensiona1500
redargution1514
remorda1529
piece of one's mind1536
check1541
snuba1556
rebuking1561
boba1566
sneap1600
snipping1601
reprimand1636
repriment1652
rubber1699
slap1736
twinkation1748
rap1777
throughgoing1817
dressing-down1823
downset1824
hazing1829
snubbing1841
downsetting1842
raking1852
calling1855
talking toc1875
rousting1900
strafe1915
strafing1915
raspberry1919
rousing1923
bottle1938
reaming1944
ticking-off1950
serve1967
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance Pref. sig. aiii The terrible checke that the good maister in the gospell gaue to his ydel seruaunte.
1589 H. Hawks in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 547 The Captaine..had a great checke of the gouernour, because he had not gone forwards.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 26 Sept. (1970) I. 255 I was very angry; and..did give him a very great check for it, and so..to bed.
1679–80 C. Hatton Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 220 His Majesty gave him a severe checke.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xxiv. 177 He became acquainted with the proctor, by times. But all the checks he received were insufficient to moderate his career.
†b. (without plural) Reproof, censure, rebuke. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > [noun]
telingeOE
chastiment?c1225
snapinga1300
snibbinga1300
reproving?1316
undernimminga1325
correctiona1340
threapening1340
admonishingc1350
reproofa1375
scourgingc1374
correptionc1380
repreyningc1390
reprehensiona1413
undertakingc1430
rebuke?a1439
admonition1440
correptingc1449
rebut?c1450
reprehendingc1450
redargution1483
reproval1493
increpation1502
prisec1540
tasking1543
check1588
improof1590
snubbing1600
threap1636
compellation1656
reprovement1675
reprimanding1698
rowing1812
lecturing1861
carpeting1888
eldering1912
woodshedding1940
stick1956
1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) ii. ii. 113 Yet peradventure they shall not excuse our Iustice of the Peace from checke and blame.
1623 J. Mede in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 153 The Lord Marquess..hath had in the Spanish Court some check of late for forgetting himself so farre, etc.
a1718 W. Penn Life in Wks. (1726) I. 48 We..do intreat that we may have some Letter of Check to such Persons.
5.
a. A sudden arrest given to the career or onward course of anything by some obstruction or opposition; a rebuff, repulse, reverse.Quot. c1330 is doubtful: cf. B. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > a check or rebuff
rebuke?a1513
counterbuff1579
damp1584
check?c1600
turnagain1630
rebuff1672
knock1898
knockback1898
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 151 Þe folk..Þer ȝates ageyn him sperd, & wild not lat him in..& for þei did þat chek, an oth he suore to gram.]
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 332 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 244 Then betide a chicke [emended in ed. to checke] that Cheshire men f[led]den.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 106 They must haue some Checke or Arrest in their Fortunes.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 265 A basket was sunk..to a certain depth of water, which gave a check to the boat's motion.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation Introd. 29 They dexterously endeavoured to thwart its success, and consequently the serious check it would have given to smuggling.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 241 The first great check that had ever been given to the arms of Lewis.
b. spec. A slight military reverse or repulse.
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society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun]
confusionc1290
scomfit13..
cumber1303
discomfitc1330
scomfitingc1333
discomfiturea1400
scomfiturea1400
discomfitingc1405
overthrowc1440
male journey1455
overset1456
foilc1478
discomforture1485
supprise1488
reversea1529
distrage?1548
loss1548
defeat1553
underdeal1553
discomfort1589
defeatment1598
defeature1598
rufflec1600
defeatance1608
routa1616
Caudine Forks1619
disrout1623
conviction1631
bang1644
derout1644
conquest1677
drubbing1769
check1793
thrashing1797
sauve-qui-peut1815
debacle1847
smash1888
pasting1942
1793 Capt. Bentinck in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 29 Under the supposition that we first take Condé, then carry Famars, and meet with no kind of check.
1799 in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 94 We have reports of our check in Holland, September 19th, and of our complete victory on the 24th.
c. A sudden stopping of the breath; a consonant produced by this means a stopped consonant, ‘stop’, or ‘mute’, as k, t, p, g, d, b.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > stop
mute1530
check1669
lene1841
stop1873
stop consonant1975
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > stop > complete closure
check1669
stop1669
stopping1873–4
mute-closure1875
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 11 The Letters,..have the natural Production by the several checks or stops, or (as they are usually called) Articulations of the Breath or Voice.
d. Hunting: A stop in the progress of the hounds through failure of the scent.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > [noun] > loss of scent
defaulta1450
overputting1590
at a loss1592
fault1593
check1781
1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting xvi. 201 When hounds are put to a check on a high road, by the fox being headed back, etc.
1875 G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xxiii The stag..sped..six miles on end without halt or hindrance, and the hounds ran him without a check.
e. A crack or flaw in timber. Originally dialect (cf. season-check n. at season n. Compounds 2).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > defects
shan1867
check1877
honeycombing1906
collapse1948
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 55/1 That wood's full o'checks; it'll nivver do to make furk-shafts on.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 33 Check, a longitudinal crack in timber caused by too rapid seasoning.
1949 Gloss. Terms Timber (B.S.I.) 19 Check, a separation of the fibres along the grain, forming a crack or fissure in the timber, not extending through the piece from one surface to another.
f. Mining. A slight fault or dislocation of the strata.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining
6. Hawking.
a. A false stoop, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, and pursues some baser game that crosses her flight. Obsolete or Historical.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [noun] > other actions
checkc1430
tiringc1450
rifler1486
canceleer1599
coast1614
gurgiting1614
raling1618
stooping1653
casta1793
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes i. viii Haukes, best preued, sumtime a check can make, Yet for a faute the foule is not forsake.
a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnnnn2/2 The free Haggard..wil make an hundred checks, To shew her freedome.
a1642 J. Suckling Lett. Divers Eminent Personages 64 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) A young Woman is a Hawk upon her wings; and if she be handsome, she is the more subject to go out at check.
b. Base game, such as rooks, crows, doves, etc., which induce a hawk to ‘check’.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > quarry > [noun] > game causing hawk to check
check1575
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 110 If your Hawke go out to anye checke, and kill a Dooue or a Crow, or anye other checke and feede vpon it.
1614 S. Latham Falconry i. vii. 27 Take a fit howre at euening when all check be past.
1621 G. Markham Hunger's Prevent. (1655) 164.
c. to fly at check: to pursue such game. Also transf. to run at check: said of dogs.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > follow wrong scent
to hunt (the) changea1425
to run riot1594
hunt-counter1600
to run at check1667
riot1781
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > fly away from quarry
to rake out (also away, off)1575
to turn tail1575
to turn taila1586
check1615
to fly at check1667
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lxxxvi. 22 When..Some Falcon..the quarry miss'd, Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind?
1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. xi. 196 Like ill-bred Spaniels they run at Check on a false Sent.
7.
a. A sharp stoppage of motion; an interruption in a course, a sudden stoppage or pause.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion
arrestc1385
stop1544
checkc1555
stoppage1775
pull-up1834
arrestment1836
arresting1849
fetch-up1866
hold-back1888
seize-up1912
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation > sudden or accidental
checkc1555
hitch1748
syncope1785
hold-up1837
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Aii And he agein at eche check made in our walking caste earnest lokes vpon me.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 94 Posts like the Commandment of a King, Sans check to good and bad. View more context for this quotation
1829 R. Southey Pilgrim to Compostella ii, in All for Love 169 In they came from the yard without check.
†b. to take check: to stop short (as if checked), ‘pull up’; to take offence. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > be or become resentful [verb (intransitive)]
to pick (also peck) mooda1225
disdaina1382
endeigna1382
indeign1382
risec1390
to take offencea1393
to take pepper in the nose1520
stomach1557
offenda1578
sdeigna1593
huff1598
to snuff pepper1624
check1635
to bear, owe (a person) a grudge1657
to take check1663
to take (‥) umbrage1683
to ride rusty1709
to flame out, up1753
to take a niff1777
niff1841
spleen1885
to put one's shoulder out1886
to have (or get) the spike1890
derry1896
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > stop short in some activity > as if checked
to take check1663
to hold hard1761
to pull up1808
1663 L. Womock Aron-bimnucha or Antidote to cure Calamites 51 Therefore our Consciences do take check at it, being afraid the Lord should upbraid us.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i. 22 Say I shou'd wed her, wou'd not my wise Subjects Take check, and think it strange? perhaps revolt?
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 380 One man will be oblig'd to take cheque upon a disappointment, and retreat sooner than another.
1712 in W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 3rd Pt. Publisher to Yong Nobility sig. A3 Debauchees will take Check at the Freedom of these Papers.
†8. A stoppage of wages or a fine for non-fulfilment of duties or transgression of rules, inflicted upon servants of the royal household, etc.; the amount stopped. (See check v.1 9) Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > on servants of royal household
check1526
1526 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 230 The defaulkation and check of wages of all them which shall be absent.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1526/2 Yeomen of the garde, which before hauing xii.d. the day with checke, were nowe allowed vi.d. the day without checke.
1598 in E. F. Rimbault Old Cheque-bk. Chapel Royal (1872) 67 All and every checke and checkes..inflicted upon any Gentleman or other member of the Chappell by the Subdeane for breakinge of any of the statutes and orders..shalbe staied and taken by oure Clearke of the Checke..out of the offenders boord wages..and the same monye by checke or checkes soe staied and taken upp, the Clearke of oure Checke shall accounte for.
1663 in E. F. Rimbault Old Cheque-bk. Chapel Royal (1872) 82 The check for absence on ordinary weeke dayes shall be twelve pence every service.
1736 Gen. List or Catal. Offices & Officers 219 in Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 32) The whole band are to attend at the four principal Feasts of the year..under penalty of the cheque.
9.
a. Restraint upon action or conduct by a supervising or controlling power.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun]
havingeOE
holdc1230
withholdingc1386
restrainingc1390
refraininga1398
repression?a1425
repressing1431
bridlingc1443
restraint1443
restrainc1449
repressurec1487
restingc1503
abstention1521
controlling1523
controlment1525
distrain1531
staying1563
control1564
refrain1568
retention1578
check1579
restrainment1579
refranation1583
cohibition1586
withholdment1640
curbing1661
coercion1827
chastenment1882
detent1907
clamp-down1940
1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 61v When loue commaundes, we must receiue the check, He rules, and euery God obayes his becke.
1601 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 287 The Clerke of the Kitchen..hath..a checke over all the officers in the same.
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 326/1 He also keeps Checque, by calling all the Workmen twice a day to their Labour.
1665 Sir W. Coventry in S. Pepys Corresp. Nov. 7 For a neglect of keeping a good checque upon his Purser.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 27 It is better the child should stand in awe of the old man in the cupboard..than be under no check at all.
1861 J. S. Mill Considerations Representative Govt. vi. 117 Its own proper work, that of superintendence and check.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 38 No reasonable man or woman..would..be capable of receiving effective check or guidance from beliefs, that would have sunk..to the level of doubtful guesses.
b. in check: under restriction of freedom of movement or action, under control. So formerly at one's check, out of check.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > in check [phrase]
at one's checka1575
in check1845
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > without restraint [phrase]
without restraint1443
at range1568
out of checka1575
at random1590
at (a or the) loose1593
on (or upon) the loose1935
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 78 Seeing our case is out of that checke. And as our case is not checked by God's law, etc.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Irelande ii. 43/2 in Chron. I Bearing themselues..for gouernors out of checke.
1579 S. Gosson Ephemerides Phialo f. 47 To confesse their owne weakenes which stand at his checke.
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 145 A powerful prince..who could hold the Turks in check.
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 305 His task was..to keep Nugent in check.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 170 The common law of the desert found itself kept in check by the statute law of Palestine.
10.
a. Any person or thing that checks, or acts as a stop or restraint.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [noun] > means of restraint or restraining force
bridleeOE
bridea1425
restraint1523
aweband1531
bit1546
retentive1580
control1594
curb1613
hank1613
constriction1650
retinue1651
check1661
spigot1780
brake1875
way-chain1884
tab1889
inhibitor1902
check-cord1908
iron maiden1912
inhibition1932
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] > that which
lockeOE
floodgatec1230
stopc1508
staya1533
snub1581
prevention1584
embarment1606
allay1607
spar1614
counterchecka1616
gag1618
preventivea1639
check1661
preventative1691
embargo1692
closed door1934
policeman1951
block-
1661 S. Pepys Diary 27 Oct. (1970) II. 202 He was a Cheque to their ingrossing the whole trade of the navy-office.
1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *C A Satyrical Poet is the Check of the Laymen, on bad Priests.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 43 He [the Earl of Manchester] was unhappily too much used as a Check upon the Lord Coventry.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 317 These imposts, if too heavy, are a check and cramp upon trade.
1798 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population v. 71 All the checks to population may be resolved into misery or vice.
1885 Law Times 16 May 38/1 The magistrate may be necessary as a check on the doctor.
b. Mechanics. (See quots.)
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1796 J. Boys Agric. Surv. Kent (1813) 52 A strong chain..so fixed, as by means of notches (or a pin called a check) to let the whole plough out a greater length from the axle.
1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Engine Explained 37 In the inside of the stuffing box a small projecting ring, called a check, is cast, on which rests a brass ring, ground exactly to the size of the piston rod, which passes through it steam-tight.
c. Angling. In the reel of a fishing rod, a contrivance for marking, by the clicking of a wheel, the running out of the line.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > reel > [noun] > attachments
check1867
free spool1906
star drag1936
pickup1951
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling i. 13 The best reels for bottom-fishing are the plain reels with a light check.
d. Music. A part of the action of a pianoforte fixed at the back part of the key, to catch the hammer and prevent its retouching the strings.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > stringed keyboards > [noun] > pianoforte > hammer > device for holding it after striking
key-check1855
check1879
tape-check1929
1879 in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 341/1 In cottage pianofortes or pianinos that have check actions the check is placed before the hammer, and a stud projecting from the butt of the hammer comes in contact with the check.
e. checks and balances: means of limiting or counteracting the wrongful use of administrative power. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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society > authority > rule or government > misrule or misgovernment > [noun] > means of counteracting
checks and balances1787
1787 J. Adams Def. Constit. Govt. U.S.A. I. p. iii The checks and balances of republican governments have been in some degree adapted by the courts of princes.
1842 Tyler in Messages & Papers of Presidents (U.S.) IV. 193 A proceeding tending to the utter destruction of the checks and balances of the Constitution.
1958 Economist 13 Dec. (African Suppl.) 24/1 A far more complicated federal constitution of checks and balances has had to be adopted to hold together..Nigeria.
f. A form of catch on a rein; elliptical a check-rein. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > reins
rein1297
bridle reina1382
bridea1425
linkc1450
leading-rein1483
quinsell1598
bearing rein1790
bridoon rein1795
check-reina1809
ribbon1813
ribands1815
bit-rein1833
check-piece1833
nose-rein1844
lines1852
reinage1863
check1868
overdraw1870
single line1875
overcheck1963
1868 H. Woodruff & C. J. Foster Trotting Horse Amer. xxiii. 202 In order to prevent him from throwing down his head..the well-known Kemble-Jackson check..was invented.
1887 A. W. Tourgée Button's Inn 122 Throw me that off rein, if you please..Just shift those inside checks, won't you?
11. Control by which accuracy, correctness, or agreement of facts and their representation, is secured.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > test or testing for truth or correctness > by comparison
controlling1523
check1786
checking1879
check-up1921
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun] > by comparison
controlling1523
check1786
checking1879
cross-check1896
check-back1926
1786 E. Burke Speech 4 Apr. in Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) XLI. 524/2 That the said Warren Hastings, by uniting the Supply and the Check in the same Hands, did..disobey the Company's specific Orders.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §101 The foreman on shore to take an account of every thing..under the check of the engineer or his deputy when on shore.
12. One employed to check or control; a checker.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > test or testing for truth or correctness > by comparison > one who
check-man1737
check1774
checker1867
1774 J. Barclay et al. Compl. Eng. Dict. Check..a person who examines any account.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 343/2 One gentleman..told me he employed a ‘ladylike’, and, as he believed, trusty woman, as a ‘check’.
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13. A mark made against an item in an account, list, &c., to show that it has been ‘checked’, i.e. compared and found correct.
14. A means to ensure accuracy, correctness, security from fraud, etc.: as
†a. The counterfoil of a bank bill, draft, etc.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > cheques and drafts > [noun] > draft form with counterfoil > counterfoil
foila1483
check1706
counterstock1706
counterfoil1865
stub1876
1706 Act 5 Anne c. 13 [Enacts that Exchequer Bills be made henceforth with two counterfoils instead of one, and] That the said Governor and Company [of Bk. of Eng.] shall..have the use and custody of the one part of all and euery the Checques, Indents, or Counterfoyls of all such Exchequer Bills..and from which the same Exchequer Bills shall be cut.
1708 Act 7 Anne c. 7 Such part of the said Cheques, Indents, or Counterfoils as shall relate to the Bills so discharged or cancelled..shall be delivered back into the Receipt of Her Majesties Exchequer by the said Governor and Company. [Cf. Mr. A. W. Chisholm's Return to Ho. of Commons, ordered 11 May 1857, on National Debt.]
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Check, the correspondent cipher of a bank bill.
1774 J. Barclay et al. Compl. Eng. Dict. Check..a counter cypher of a bank bill; an account kept privately to examine that which is kept with a banker, or public office.
b. A token, usually a memorandum of receipt, a ticket, or piece of metal duly stamped or numbered, used for the purpose of identification, or as evidence of ownership or title: given, e.g. to the owner of luggage on a railway (as in U.S.), or to one who temporarily leaves luggage, cloaks, portable articles, at the cloakroom of a railway station, place of entertainment, etc., to enable him to identify and reclaim the same; to a person temporarily leaving a theatrical performance, or going upon the platform of a railway, to allow him to pass the gatekeeper again without payment; to a purchaser in a co-operative or other store as his voucher for a share in a dividend, etc., etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > labelling > [noun] > label, tag, or ticket
bill1474
schedule1523
label?1577
libel1603
tessera1656
check1812
price ticket1830
etiquette1831
sticker1862
tag1864
price tag1880
tab1883
tally1909
mailing label1959
swing-ticket1962
swing label1968
the mind > language > speech > agreement > security > [noun] > a pledge or security > token or ticket for baggage, etc.
check1812
baggage-check1845
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 117 Hark! the check taker moody silence breaks, And bawling ‘Pit full’, gives the check he takes.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xxi. 223 A shouting of ‘Your check, sir! your check!—Give me your check—Please give me your check!..’ [for re-admission to a theatre].
1847 Illustr. London News 4 Sept. 146/1 They will deny the receipt of a check, and exact the fare again.
1850 Wilmington (N. Carolina) Commercial 28 Feb. 3/3 Porters will receive checks, take charge of the baggage, and convey it to the Hotel.
1858 I. F. Redfield Law Railways (1869) II. 37 Railways have made their checks evidence in regard to the delivery of baggage.
1878 M. E. Herbert tr. J. A. von Hübner Ramble round World i. iv. 32 As to your luggage, you need not trouble your head about it, as you have your ‘check’.
c. A restaurant bill. Chiefly U.S.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > invoice or bill
bill1420
invoice1560
factory1615
invoy1617
facture1668
Williamc1859
check1868
price tab1886
tag1968
1868 A. D. Whitney Patience Strong's Outings 128 I let her settle for the dinner checks.
1910 ‘O. Henry’ Strictly Business 192 Through an arched opening..you thrust your waiter's check and the money.
1916 Variety 27 Oct. 12/3 Inspectors..ordered drinks and paid their check just before one.
1937 R. Stout Red Box vii. 88 I..found the waitress and got my check from her.
15. A counter used in card games (U.S.); hence (colloquial) to hand in one's checks: to die. Also to cash, pass or send in one's checks. (Originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > bidding or staking > counter
counter1579
mille1830
check1845
1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Simon Suggs (1851) v. 57 He called for ‘Twenty, five dollar checks..’. The dealer handed him the red checks.
1857 Spirit of Times 7 Mar. 6/1 Those noble and peril-loving souls have nearly all ‘handed in their checks’.
1869 Overland Monthly July 31/2 Three or four miners and axemen sat whittling on the logs as the doctor came out; and Hy Fender asked: ‘Well, now; has he passed in his checks?’
1870 B. Harte Outcasts Poker Flat Beneath this tree lies the body of J. O. who..handed in his checks on the 7th December, 1850.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home ii You see one of the boys has passed in his checks.
1888 Amer. Humorist 11 Aug. (F.) Till death calls upon you to cash in your earthly checks.
1893 C. M. Yonge & C. R. Coleridge Strolling Players xxxii. 292 I was too bad for twenty-four hours to tell him I wasn't exactly going to send in my checks this time.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 406 Chum o yourn passed in his checks?
1947 W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 111 Ivy's promised me that when I hand in my checks she'll come back here.
†16. Short for check-roll n., list of servants enrolled. in check: enrolled on a check-roll. Obsolete.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > servants collectively > of a family or household > roll or list of
checker-roll1461
check-roll1577
check1603
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars vi. xvi. 127 Nine score in check attending in their Court, Whom honoured Knight-hood knits in mutuall bands.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iii. 429/1 Thou shalt bee my Knight, and bee enrolled in my Checke, with a Fee answerable to thy worth.
†17. as sure as check: (cf. chequer-pay n. at chequer n.1 Compounds 1). Obsolete.
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a1659 F. Osborne Mem. Reigns Elizabeth & James (1673) 464 Let the Proverb As sure as Check bayl me from the least suspicion of hyperboly.
18.
a. Clerk of the Check: the title of officers in the royal household, keeping the check-roll and having control of the yeomen of the guard and other servants, ‘checking’ the observance of their duties, their payment, etc.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > other officers of royal or great household
yeoman of the crown1450
sea-fisher1455
solicitor1460
stationary1462
Clerk of the Signet1489
prothonotary1502
Clerk of the Check1541
yeoman of the revels1552
yeoman of the tents1552
Queen's Remembrancer1647
labourer in trust1746
Master of the Buckhounds1753
cock-crower1785
ministerial1818
society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > controller > specific
Clerk of the Check1541
1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. xii Retourned by the two clarkes Comptrollers, the clarkes of the Checque, and clarkes marshalles.
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 20 Than had he A Clarke of the Chekke as well to chekke his Chappleyns as hys yomen of the Chamber.
?1577 F. T. Debate Pride & Lowlines sig. Bv To setten downe a bill of charge, There is no Auditor, ne Clarke of Check, Can penne it bett then he.
1886 Whitaker's Almanack 83 Her Majesty's Body-guard of Yeomen of the Guard..Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant, Lieut. Col. Francis Baring..Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms..Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant, Major Philip L. Tillbrook.
†b. Formerly the title of officers of control appointed in the royal ports and dockyards (also occasionally to land forces). Obsolete.
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1637 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship 47 Master Francis Shelton, Clerke of the Checke, whose industry and care, in looking to the Workmen imployed in this Architecture, hath beene a great furtherance to expedite the businesse.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 23 July (1974) VIII. 349 Comes sudden news..from the Clerk of the Cheque at Gravesend, that there was 30 sail of Duch men-of-war coming up into the Hope.
1705 Royal Procl. in London Gaz. No. 4166/1 The Muster-Books returned from the Clerks of the Checque of the said Ports.
1714 London Gaz. No. 5278/8 Matthew Pennefather, Esq., to be Muster-Master-General, and Clerk of the Checque of all His Majesty's Forces and Garrisons in Ireland.
1814 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 514 The Clerk of the Cheque of the Royal Hospital [Greenwich].
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. iii. 46 To request my commission to be forwarded to the clerk of the cheque at Plymouth.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
check-experiment n.
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1874 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 6) 288 A check experiment.
b.
check-bitted adj.
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1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 86 A very fiery steed, but bridled, check-bitted by innumerable straps and considerations.
check-free adj.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [adjective] > completely unchecked
unbridledc1374
untempered1377
bridleless?1406
unrepressed?a1425
untemperatea1425
savagea1450
unchecked1469
undaunted1513
uncontrolleda1535
reinless1566
unrestrained1578
ineffrenate1581
unbitteda1586
check-free1598
uncurbed1600
checkless1604
unbounded1608
uncontained?1611
dis'chained1615
ungoverneda1616
unstanched1621
unsneaped1647
incontrolled1650
controlless1657
irregulated1664
curbless1813
do-as-you-please1845
disenchaineda1849
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 62 Check-free licentiousnesse.
C2. Also check-taker n., etc. (For other combinations see after the verb.)
check-action n. (see sense B. 10d).
check-man n. a man who checks tickets, etc.; spec. U.S., a transfer-man.
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1907 Daily Chron. 23 Sept. 4/4 As you are nearing your destination, a ‘check-man’ boards your car.
check-reel n. a reel provided with a check to control the quantity of thread wound up; also, an angler's reel fitted with a check (see sense B. 10c).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > reel > [noun] > types of
click reel1824
salmon reel1841
multiplier1847
salmon winch1883
casting-reel1892
check-reel1892
Nottingham1898
1733 P. Lindsay Interest Scotl. Pref. 22 To introduce the Practice of Check-reels every where.
1892 R. Niven Brit. Angler's Lex. 72 Check reels..should be humoured so as not to be too stiff or too slack.
1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 208 Two metal check-reels for trout fishing.
check-winch n. a winch on the reel of a fishing-rod provided with a check (cf. B. 10c).
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1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. iii. 345 The reel should be a large-barrelled check-winch.

Draft additions March 2008

check box n. = tick box n. at tick n.3 Additions.
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1944 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 9 365/2 They provide their patrons with simple check-box questionnaires.
2006 R. Kao & D. Sarigumba Blackberry for Dummies vii. 164 Select this check box to specify the condition of an e-mail that is BCCed to you.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

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