To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

One who cheapens.

At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.

Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

See Cheer.

Wheat, or bread made from wheat.

Capable of being cheated.

Capability of being cheated.

One who cheats.

A narrow-sterned boat formerly much used in the Newfoundland fisheries; -- called also pinkstern and chebec.

A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.

a native or inhabitant of Czechoslovakia; a Czechoslovakian.

Checkered; designed in checks.

To register as a guest at a hotel, inn, motel. etc. Converse of check out.

To inspect or examine.

The act of registering as a guest at a hotel, inn, motel. etc; the act of checking in. Used also attributively, as the check-in counter at a hotel.

The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.

Held back from some action especially by force.

A piece in the game of draughts or checkers.

A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

a perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of West North America (Sidalcea malviflora) that is also cultivated.

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

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

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

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

Ciclatoun.

That can not be checked or restrained.

To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.

a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases.

the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.

a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance.

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.

A cord by which a person in a carriage or horse car may signal to the driver.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing.

Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese.

To be impudent or saucy to.

the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek.

Having a cheek; -- used in composition.

having no cheek. Opposite of cheeked.

A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.

To grow cheerful; to become gladsome or joyous; -- usually with up.

One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens.

Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

In a cheerful manner, gladly.

Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

In a cheery manner.

The state of being cheery.

In a manner to cheer or encourage.

Cheerfulness.

Without joy, gladness, or comfort.

Cheerily.

Displaying evident cheerfulness; cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person; a cheery hello.

The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

a board on which cheeses are served.

a hamburger with melted cheese on it.

an erect or decumbent Old World perennial (Malva sylvestris) with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.

A bag in which rennet is kept.

A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.

The quality of being cheesy.

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

A species of leopard (Cyn/lurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is Cyn/lurus laneus. It runs very fast in short spurts while hunting.

the common rufous-sided towhee of eastern North America, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.

A chief or head person.

A masterpiece; a capital work in art, literature, etc.

See Chigoe.

The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

See Chilopoda.

One of the Chiroptera; -- an older spelling of chiropter.

An earlier spelling for Chiroptera, an order of Mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Chiroptera and Bat.

chiropterous; belonging to the Chiroptera, or Bat family.

The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

See Ciclatoun.

A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

In India, a dependent person occupying a position between that of a servant or slave and a disciple; hence, a disciple or novice.

Same as Cheliferous.

a compound formed by combination of a metal ion in solution with a compound containing heteroatoms (such as oxygen or nitrogen), in which at least two heteroatoms are bound to the metal. The bonds may be covalent or non-covalent. Chelates in some cases have very low dissociation constants, and organic compounds (chelating agents) which form such chelates are therefore used to reduce the concentration of free metal ions in solution.

combined with a chelator so as to form a chelate; -- of metal ions.

a compound which forms a chelate with a metal ion.

the process of removing a heavy metal from a solution by means of a chelate; the treatment of lead or mercury poisoning by adding a chelating agent to the blood.

An alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts. It is a colorless crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.

having chelicerae.

The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine.

a genu having only one species; the greater celandine.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

See Book scorpion, under Book.

Having cheliform claws, like a crab.

Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariace/, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtlehead, shellflower, etc.

an order comprising the false scorpions.

An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles, peculiar in having a part of the vertebr/, ribs, and sternum united with the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws are covered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to animals of the tortoise kind. One of the Chelonia.

a natural family including the green turtles; hawksbills.

A genus of marine amphipod crustacea, which bore into and sometimes destroy timber.

A claw. See Chela.

a city in the Asian part of Russia.

a genus of snapping turtles.

a natural family comprising the snapping turtles.

Chemical.

A substance used for producing a chemical effect; a reagent.

According to chemical principles; by chemical process or operation.

Engraved by a voltaic battery.

Any mechanical engraving process depending upon chemical action; specif., a process of zinc etching not employing photography.

A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.

The sensitiveness exhibited by small free-swimming organisms, as bacteria, zoospores of alg/, etc., to chemical substances held in solution. They may be attracted (positive chemotaxis) or repelled (negative chemotaxis).

A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.

The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attraction; affinity; -- sometimes used as a general expression for chemical activity or relationship.

A person versed in chemistry or given to chemical investigation; an analyst; a maker or seller of chemicals or drugs.

a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold; a drugstore.

That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.

Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea.