[f. CHECK v.1]

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  1.  Stopped in progress; repressed; restrained.

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1793.  T. Beddoes, Calcul., 194. Which medical men attribute to checked perspiration.

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1821.  Byron, Juan, V. cxxxiv. So supernatural was her passion’s rise; For ne’er till now she knew a check’d desire; Even ye who know what a check’d woman is … would much fall short of this.

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  † 2.  Checked paper: see CHEQUE 2.

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1768.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 621. If I have an account with the Bank of England … if I have no checked paper along with me, I cannot draw for a single sixpence to buy me a little bread and cheese.

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  † 3.  Half checked. (? half-cheeked.)

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1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., III. ii. 57. With a halfe-chekt Bitte, & a headstall of sheepes leather.

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