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Word Meanings - CHECKERBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • PLAY
    quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • PLAYTE
    See PLEYT
  • DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
    The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • ALTERNATENESS
    The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
  • COLORADO BEETLE
    A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
  • COLORADOITE
    Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • COLOR
    An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the
  • PLAYTHING
    A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
  • COLORIFIC
    Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
  • DRAUGHTSMAN
    1. One who draws pleadings or other writings. 2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. 3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts. 4. One who drinks
  • PLAYSOME
    Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
  • COLORIMETER
    An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
  • COLOR SERGEANT
    See SERGEANT
  • PLAYGAME
    Play of children. Locke.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • SIDEBOARD
    A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
  • WEATHERBOARDING
    The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
  • SPRINGBOARD
    An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
  • CHESSBOARD
    The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
  • MEDAL PLAY
    Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
  • ABOARD
    On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • SUBALTERNATE
    1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
  • SPLAYFOOT
    A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
  • WASHBOARD
    A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
  • HORSEPLAY
    Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.

 

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