Word Meanings - CHEQUER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

CHECKERBERRY
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
CHECKERWORK
1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe.
CHECKER
One who checks.
CHECKERED
1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton. 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.
CHECKERBOARD
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
CHECKERS
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.