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.