Checker
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Checker - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
CHECKER, v.t.
1. To variegate with cross lines; to form into little squares, like a chess board, by lines or stripes of different colors. Hence,
2. To diversify; to variegate with different qualities, scenes, or events.
Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood.
CHECKER, n.
1. One who checks or restrains; a rebuker.
2. A chess-board.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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