Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 46
Cheapener (n.) One who cheapens. Cheap-jack
Cheap-jack (n.) Alt. of Cheap-john
Cheap-john (n.) A seller of low-priced or second goods; a hawker.
Syn: huckster, hawker, tout.
Cheaply (adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Cheaply (adv.) In a stingy manner; "their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily" [syn: stingily, cheaply, chintzily].
Cheaply (adv.) In a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar" [syn: cheaply, tattily, inexpensively] [ant: expensively].
Cheaply (adv.) With little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply" [syn: cheaply, inexpensively].
Cheapness (n.) Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.
Cheapness (n.) A price below the standard price [syn: bargain rate, cheapness, cut rate, cut price].
Cheapness (n.) Tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn: cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze].
Chear (n. & v.) [Obs.] See Cheer.
Cheat (n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste. -- Chapman.
Cheat (n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. -- Dryden.
Cheat (n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. -- Johnson
Cheat (n.) (Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
Cheat (n.) (Law) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
Note: When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law. -- Wharton.
Syn: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.
Cheat (v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
Cheated (imp. & p. p.) of Cheat
Cheating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheat
Cheat (v. t.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island. -- Shak.
Cheat (v. t.) To beguile. -- Sir W. Scott.
To cheat winter of its dreariness. -- W. Irving.
Syn: To trick; cozen; gull; chouse; fool; outwit; circumvent; beguile; mislead; dupe; swindle; defraud; overreach; delude; hoodwink; deceive; bamboozle.
Chess (n.) (Bot.) A species of brome grass ({Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.]
Note: Other species of brome grass are called upright chess, soft chess, etc.
Cheat (n.) Weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum].
Cheat (n.) Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat [syn: chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus].
Cheat (n.) Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker].
Cheat (n.) The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig].
Cheat (n.) A deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat, cheating].
Cheat (v.) Deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" [syn: cheat, rip off, chisel].
Cheat (v.) Defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey].
Cheat (v.) Engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat, chisel].
Cheat (v.) Be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander].
Cheatable (a.) Capable of being cheated.
Cheatableness (n.) Capability of being cheated.
Cheater (n.) One who cheats.
Cheater (n.) An escheator. [R.] -- Shak.
Cheater (n.) Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker].
Chebacco (n.) (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec. --Bartlett.
Chebacco (n.) (Naut.) A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland -- Bartlett. fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.
Chebec (n.) (Naut.) See Chebacco.
Chebec (n.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
Check (n.) (Chess) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.
Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
Which gave a remarkable check to the first progress of Christianity. -- Addison.
No check, no stay, this streamlet fears. -- Wordsworth.
Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
Useful check upon the administration of government. -- Washington.
A man whom no check could abash. -- Macaulay.
Check (n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified; as, checks placed against items in an account; a check given for baggage; a return check on a railroad.
Check (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
Check (n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.
Check (n.) (Falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
Check (n.) Small chick or crack.
Bank check, A written order on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer.
Check book, A book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank.
Check hook, A hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped.
Check list, A list or catalogue by which things may be verified, or on which they may be checked.
Check nut (Mech.), A secondary nut, screwing down upon the primary nut to secure it. -- Knight.
Check valve (Mech.), A valve in the feed pipe of a boiler, or other conduit, to prevent the return of the feed water or other fluid.
To take check, to take offense. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Syn: Hindrance; setback; interruption; obstruction; reprimand; censure; rebuke; reproof; repulse; rebuff; tally; counterfoil; counterbalance; ticket; draft.
Checked (imp. & p. p.) of Check
Checking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Check
Check (v. t.) (Chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
Check (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb. Hence, (Ice Hockey) To obstruct the motion of an opposing player by contacting him with one's body.
So many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression. -- Burke.
Check (v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy. Hence, To compare with an original or with some standard, to insure correctness; as, to check an account; to check with a supervisor about procedures.
Check (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
The good king, his master, will check him for it. -- Shak.
Check (v. t.) (Naut.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
Check (v. t.) To leave (something) in the temporary custody of another; as, to check baggage; to check one's firearms at the door; to check one's coat at the cloakroom.
Check (v. t.) To accept (something) for temporary custody from another; as, to check a customer's baggage; to check a customer's coat.
Check (v. t.) To make a checkered pattern upon.
Syn: To restrain; curb; bridle; repress; control; hinder; impede; obstruct; interrupt; tally; rebuke; reprove; rebuff.
Check (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; -- with at.
The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, either is disabled for the future, or else checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after. --Locke.
Check (v. i.) To clash or interfere. [R.] -- Bacon.
Check (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
It [his presence] checks too strong upon me. -- Dryden.
Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
Check (v. i.) (Falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. -- Shak.
Check (a.) Checkered; designed in
checks.
Check (n.) A written order directing a bank to pay money; "he paid all his bills by check" [syn: check, bank check, cheque].
Check (n.) An appraisal of the state of affairs; "they made an assay of the contents"; "a check on its dependability under stress" [syn: assay, check]
Check (n.) The bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check" [syn: check, chit, tab].
Check (n.) The state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage].
Check (n.) Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory" [syn: confirmation, verification, check, substantiation].
Check (n.) The act of inspecting or verifying; "they made a check of their equipment"; "the pilot ran through the check-out procedure" [syn: check, checkout, check-out procedure].
Check (n.) A mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.; "as he called the role he put a check mark by each student's name" [syn: check mark, check, tick].
Check (n.) Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn: hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap].
Check (n.) A mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something [syn: check, chip].
Check (n.) A textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard); "she wore a skirt with checks".
Check (n.) The act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper" [syn: bridle, check, curb].
Check (n.) Obstructing an opponent in ice hockey.
Check (n.) (Chess) A direct attack on an opponent's king.
Check (v.) Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine" [syn: check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, go over, check into].
Check (v.) Make an examination or investigation; "check into the rumor"; "check the time of the class".
Check (v.) Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure].
Check (v.) Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger" [syn: control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate].
Check (v.) Stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution; "She checked for an instant and missed a step".
Check (v.) Put a check mark on or near or next to; "Please check each name on the list"; "tick off the items"; "mark off the units" [syn: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off, tick].
Check (v.) Slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" [syn: check, retard, delay].
Check (v.) Be verified or confirmed; pass inspection; "These stories don't check!" [syn: check, check out].
Check (v.) Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord].
Check
(v.) Block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey.
Check
(v.) Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice;
especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their
children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline,
train, check, condition].
Check (v.) Consign for shipment on a vehicle; "check your luggage before boarding".
Check (v.) Hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping; "Check your coat at the door".
Check (v.) Abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey.
Check
(v.) Stop in a chase especially when scent is lost; "The do
Check
(v.) Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on [syn:
check, checker, chequer].
Check (v.) Decline to initiate betting.
Check (v.) Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back].
Check (v.) Place into check; "He checked my kings".
Check (v.) Write out a check on a bank account.
Check (v.) Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn].
Check (v.) Verify by consulting a source or authority; "check the spelling of this word"; "check your facts".
Check (v.) Arrest the motion (of something) abruptly; "He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve".
Check (v.) Make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [syn: check, chink].
Check (v.) Become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated" [syn: crack, check, break].
Check (n.) A hardware-detected error condition, most commonly used to refer to actual hardware failures rather than software-induced traps. E.g., a parity check is the result of a hardware-detected parity error. Recorded here because the word often humorously extended to non-technical problems. For example, the term child check has been used to refer to the problems caused by a small child who is curious to know what happens when s/he presses all the cute buttons on a computer's console (of course, this particular problem could have been prevented with molly-guards).
Check, () contracts. A written order or request, addressed to a bank or persons carrying on the banking business, and drawn upon them by a party having money in their hands, requesting them to pay on presentment to a person therein named or to bearer, a named sum of money.
Check, () It is said that checks are uniformly payable to bearer Chit. on Bills, 411; but that is not so in practice in the United States. they are generally payable to bearer, but sometimes they are payable to order.
Check, () Cheeks are negotiable instruments, as bills of exchange; though, strictly speaking, they are due before payment has been demanded, i$n which respect they differ from promissory notes and bills of exchange payable on a particular day. 7 T. R. 430.
Check, () The differences between a common check and a bill of exchange, are, First, that a check may be taken after it is overdue, and still the holder is not subject to the equities which may exist between the drawer and the party 'from whom he receives it; in the case of bills of exchange, the holder is subject to such equity. 3 John. Cas. 5, 9; 9 B. & Cr. 388. Secondly, the drawer of a bill of exchange is liable only on the condition that it be presented in due time, and, if it be dishonored, that he has had notice; but such is not the case with a check, no delay will excuse the drawer of it, unless he has suffered some loss or injury on that account, and then only pro tanto. 3 Kent, Com. 104 n. 5th ed.; 8 John. Cas. 2; Story, Prom. Notes, Sec. 492.
Check, () There is a kind of check known by the name of memorandum cheeks; these are given in general with an understanding that they are not to be presented at the bank on which they are drawn for payment; and, as between the parties, they have no other effect than an IOU, or common due bill; but third persons who become the holders of them, for a valuable consideration, without notice, have all the rights which the holders of ordinary cheeks can lawfully claim. Story, Prom. Notes, Sec. 499.
Check, () Giving a creditor a cheek on a bank does not constitute payment of a debt. 1 Hall, 56, 78; 7 S. & R. 116; 2 Pick. 204; 4 John. 296. See 3 Rand. 481. But a tender was held good when made by a check contained in a letter, requesting a receipt in return, which the plaintiff sent back, demanding a larger sum, without objecting to the nature of the tender. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2436.
Check, () A cheek delivered by a testator in his lifetime to a person as a gift, and not presented till after his death, was considered as a part of his will, and allowed to be proved as such. 3 Curt. Ecc. R. 650. Vide, generally,4 John. R. 304; 7 John. R. 26; 2 Ves. jr. 111; Yelv. 4, b, note; 7 Serg. & Rawle, 116; 3 John. Cas. 5, 259; 6 Wend. R. 445; 2 N. & M. 251; 1 Blackf. R. 104; 1 Litt. R. 194; 2 Litt. R. 299; 6 Cowen, R. 484; 4 Har. & J. 276; 13 Wend. R. 133; 10 Wend. R. 304; 7 Har. & J. 381; 1 Hall, R. 78; 15 Mass. R. 74; 4 Yerg. R. 210; 9 S. & R. 125; 2 Story, R. 502; 4 Whart. R. 252.
Checkage (n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
Checkage (n.) The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.
Checker (v. t.) One who checks.
Checkered (imp. & p. p.) of Checker
Checkering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checker
Checker (v. t.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.
Checker (v. t.) To variegate or diversify with different qualities, colors, scenes, or events; esp., to subject to frequent alternations of prosperity and adversity.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. -- Addison.
Checker (n.) A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.
Checker (n.) A pattern in checks; a single check.
Checker (n.) Checkerwork.
Note: This word is also written chequer.
Checker (n.) An attendant who checks coats or baggage.
Checker (n.) One who checks the correctness of something.
Checker (n.) One of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers [syn: checker, chequer].
Checker (v.) Mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on [syn: check, checker, chequer].
Checker (v.) Variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns [syn: checker, chequer].
Wintergreen (n.) (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf, under Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
Chickweed wintergreen, A low perennial primulaceous herb ({Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
Flowering+wintergreen,+a+low+plant+({Polygala+paucifolia">Flowering wintergreen, a low plant ({Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen ({Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.
Oil of wintergreen, An aromatic oil, consisting almost entirely of methyl salicylate ({CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH), obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen ({Gaultheria procumbens); it can also be obtained from some other plants. It is used as a flavoring agent for tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol or eucalyptus. It is called also oil of teaberry, oil of partridgeberry, and oil of gaultheria.
Spotted wintergreen, A low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
Checkerberries (n. pl. ) of Checkerberry
Checkerberry (n.) (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
Checkerberry (n.) Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil [syn: teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens].
Checkerberry (n.) Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry].
Checkerboard (n.) A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Checkered (a.) Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.
Dancing in the checkered shade. -- Milton.
Checkered (a.) Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. ; as, a character with a checkered past.
This checkered narrative. -- Macaulay.
Checkered (a.) Patterned with
alternating squares of color [syn: checked, checkered, chequered].
Checkered (a.) Marked by changeable fortune; "a checkered business career".
Draughts (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
Note: Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. -- Am. Cyc.
Checkers (v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
Checkers (n.) A checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces [syn: checkers, draughts]
Checkerwork (n.) Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.
Checkerwork (n.) Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes.
How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. -- De Foe.
Checklaton (n.) Ciclatoun. [Obs.]
Checklaton (n.) Gilded leather. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Ciclatoun (n.) A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] [Written also checklaton, chekelatoun.]
His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. -- Chaucer.
Checkless (a.) That can not be checked or restrained.
Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
Checkmate (n.) A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.
Checkmated (imp. & p. p.) of Checkmate
Checkmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Checkmate
Checkmate (v. t.) (Chess) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.
To checkmate and control my just demands. -- Ford.
Checkmate (n.) Complete victory.
Checkmate (n.) A chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king [syn: checkmate, mate].
Checkmate (v.) Place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" [syn: checkmate, mate].
Checkrein (n.) A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
Checkrein (n.) A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
Checkrein (n.) 1: A rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position [syn: bearing rein, checkrein].
Checkroll (n.) A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
Checkstring (n.) A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.
Checkwork (n.) Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
Checky (a.) (Her.) Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, chequy.]
Cheddar (a.) Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.
Cheddar (n.) A village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was first made.
Cheddar (n.) Hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England [syn: cheddar, cheddar cheese, Armerican cheddar, American cheese].
Cheek (n.) The side of the face below the eye.
Cheek (n.) The cheek bone. [Obs.] -- Caucer.
Cheek (n.) pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
Cheek (n.) pl. The branches of a bridle bit. -- Knight.
Cheek (n.) (Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
Cheek (n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang]
Cheek
of beef. See
Illust. of Beef.
Cheek bone (Anat.) The bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar
bone.
Cheek by jowl, Side by side; very intimate.
Cheek pouch (Zool.), A sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.
Cheeks of a block, The two sides of the shell of a tackle block.
Cheeks of a mast, The projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.
Cheek tooth (Anat.), A hinder or molar tooth.
Butment cheek. See under Butment.
Cheek (v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to. [Slang.]
Cheek (n.) Either side of the face below the eyes.
Cheek (n.) An impudent statement [syn: impudence, cheek, impertinence].
Cheek (n.) Either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump [syn: buttock, cheek].
Cheek (n.) Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek].
Cheek (v.) Speak impudently to.
Cheek, () Smiting on the cheek was accounted a grievous injury and insult (Job 16:10; Lam. 3:30; Micah 5:1). The admonition (Luke 6:29), "Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other," means simply, "Resist not evil" (Matt. 5:39; 1 Pet. 2:19-23). Ps. 3:7 = that God had deprived his enemies of the power of doing him injury.
Cheeked (a.) Having a cheek; -- used in composition. "Rose-cheeked Adonis." -- Shak.
Cheeky () A Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [Slang.]
Cheeky (a.) Offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say" [syn: brash, cheeky, nervy].
Cheeped (imp. & p. p.) of Cheep
Cheep (v. i.) To chirp, as a young bird.
Cheep (v. t.) To give expression to in a chirping tone.
Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. -- Tennyson.
Cheep (n.) A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.
Cheep (n.) The short weak cry of a young bird [syn: cheep, peep].
Cheep (v.) Make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes" [syn: peep, cheep, chirp, chirrup].
Cheer (n.) 歡呼，喝采 [C]；振奮，高興 [U] The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." -- Wyclif.
Cheer (n.) Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart.
Be of good cheer. -- Matt. ix. 2.
The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer. -- Holland.
Cheer (n.) Gayety; mirth; cheerfulness; animation.
I have not that alacrity of spirit, Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. -- Shak.
Cheer (n.) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.
Cheer (n.) A shout, hurrah, or acclamation, expressing joy enthusiasm, applause, favor, etc.
Welcome her, thundering cheer of the street. -- Tennyson.
What cheer? How do you fare? What is there that is cheering?
Cheered (imp. & p. p.) of Cheer
Cheering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cheer
Cheer (v. t.) 歡呼，高呼；向……歡呼；以歡呼聲激勵 [（+on）] To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. -- Cowpe.