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A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
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A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.
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A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
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Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
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A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
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Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
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One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
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of Chessman
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A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
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A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
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A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
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A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.
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The chief piece in the game of chess.
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A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
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A move, as at chess or checkers.
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A piece used in the game of chess.
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The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
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A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
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The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
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