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Definition & Synonyms
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• Chess
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willards bromus.
Synonyms:
Cheat,
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• Ches
- () pret. of Chese.
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• Chessy copper
- () The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
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