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Word Meanings - CHECKERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • ENDENIZATION
    The act of naturalizing.
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • ENDORSER
    See INDORSER
  • ENDOGENY
    Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
  • ENDENIZE
    To endenizen.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • MOVER
    1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
  • ENDOTHECIUM
    The inner lining of an another cell.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • ENDOSCOPE
    An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
  • MOVELESS
    Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
  • TWELVEPENNY
    , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • ENDOPLASM
    The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
  • PLAYTE
    See PLEYT
  • ENDOCHROME
    The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
  • TWELVEMO
    See DUODECIMO
  • AMENDFUL
    Much improving.
  • COMMENDATOR
    One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
  • OFFENDANT
    An offender. Holland.
  • GENDER
    A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • ACCENDIBILITY
    Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
  • 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
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • STIPEND
    Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
  • SEA LAVENDER
    See MARSH
  • SHENDFUL
    Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.
  • DECRESCENDO
    With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes

 

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