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Ches (?), pret. of Chese. [Obs.]
Chaucer.

Chese (?), v. t. To
choose [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ches"i*ble (?), n. See
Chasuble.

Ches"lip (?), n.
(Zoöl.) The wood louse. [Prov. Eng.]

Chess (?), n. [OE. ches, F.
échecs, prop. pl. of échec check. See
1st Check.] 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.) 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 Willard's bromus.


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