Check
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
(2): (n.) Small chick or crack.
(3): (n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below.
(4): (n.) 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.
(5): (v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check; to put in check.
(6): (v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon; to stop temporarily; to hinder; to repress; to curb.
(7): (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.
(8): (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.
(9): (n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
(10): (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.
(11): (v. i.) To make a stop; to pause; - with at.
(12): (v. i.) To clash or interfere.
(13): (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff.
(14): (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
(15): (v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
(16): (a.) Checkered; designed in checks.
(17): (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; as, to check an account; to check baggage.
(18): (v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
(19): (v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint.
(20): (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check.
King James Dictionary [2]
CHECK,
1. To stop to restrain to hinder to curb. It signifies to put an entire stop to motion, or to restrain its violence, and cause an abatement to moderate. 2. To rebuke to chide or reprove. 3. To compare any paper with its counterpart or with a cipher, with a view to ascertain its authenticity to compare corresponding papers to control by a counter-register. 4. In seamenship, to ease of a little of a rope, which is too stiffly extended also, to stopper the cable.
CHECK,
1. To stop to make a stop with at.
The mid checks at any vigorous undertaking.
2. To clash or interfere.
I love to check with business.
3. To strike with repression.
CHECK, n.
1. A stop hindrance rebuff sudden restraint, or continued restraint curb control government. 2. That which stops or restrains, as reproof, reprimand, rebuke, slight or disgust, fear, apprehension, a person any stop or obstruction. 3. In falconry, when a hawk forsakes her proper game, to follow rooks, pies, or other fowls, that cross her in her flight. 4. The correspondent cipher of a bank note a corresponding indenture any counter-register. 5. A term in chess, when one party obliges the other either to move or guard his king. 6. An order for money, drawn on a banker or on the cashier of a bank, payable to the bearer.
This is a sense derived from that in definition 4.
7. In popular use, checkered cloth check, for checkered.
Check or check-roll, a roll or book containing the names of persons who are attendants and in the pay of a king or great personage, as domestic servants.
Clerk of the check, in the British Kings household, has the check and control of the yeomen of the guard, and all the ushers belonging to the royal family, the care of the watch, &c.
Clerk of the check, in the British Royal Dock-Yards, is an officer who keeps a register of all the men employed on board his majestys ships and vessels, and of all the artificers in the service of the navy, at the port where he is settled.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
(מוּסר , mūṣār ): Occurs in Job 20:3 the King James Version, "I have heard the check of my reproach" (the Revised Version (British and American) "the reproof which putteth me to shame"), i.e. a check or reproof, such as that which closes the last speech of Job (chapter 19), and intended to put Zophar to shame.
