chessiten.
A partizan of chess n.1Apparently an isolated use.
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1834 New Monthly Mag. 40 83 The airs of superiority the chessites assume over us poor backgammonists.
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n.1834- to lay to heart
- to lay to mortgage
- to lay to one's charge
- to lay to one's credit, reproach
- to lay to one's ear
- to lay to one's hand(s
- to lay to one's heart
- to lay to pledge
- to lay to rest
- to lay to rest, abed, to bed
- to lay to sight
- to lay to sleep, asleep
- to lay to the deaf ear
- to lay to the heart of
- to lay to, unto
- to lay together
- to lay type
- to lay under contribution
- to lay under necessity, obligation, difficulty, a command
- to lay under the ditch
- to lay up
- to lay up in lavender
- to lay up one's heels
- to lay up one's talent in a napkin
- to lay upon the lee