chess, chess game
(noun) a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent’s king
chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus
(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chess (usually uncountable, plural chesses)
A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.
chess (plural chesses)
(now chiefly, US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
chess (plural chesses)
(military, chiefly, in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
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Chess
A surname.
A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.
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Source: Wiktionary
Chess, n. Etym: [OE. ches, F. Ă©checs, prop. pl. of Ă©chec check. See 1st Check.]
Definition: 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.
Chess, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat flelds, 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 Willard's bromus. [U. S.]
Note: Other species of brome grass are called upright chess, soft chess, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
