(a) Chess Elephant (the piece now called bishop); (b) used contemptuously of a person; (c) ?rubbish. …

Chess Checkmate! (said to the opponent when his king is cornered); saien chek-mat. …

Chess (a) The piece now known as the queen; (b) a pawn which has reached the eighth square and moves as a queen; (c) the ferses twelve, the figures protecting the king. …

(a) Chess Checkmated; also fig.; chek and mat [see chek-mat]; (b) helpless, powerless; overcome, defeated; confounded, discomfited; maken mat, to overcome (sb.), defeat, render powerless. …

(a) Chess To checkmate (the king), defeat (an opponent) by checkmating his king; also fig.; maten cheker [see cheker 1. (c)]; (b) to overcome (sb.), overpower, defeat; make (sb. or sth.) powerless……

(a) A small dot marked on a surface; also, a punctuation mark, period; (b) a small hole; prick, puncture; the pointes of peines, ?the marks of Christ's wounds; (c) a spot of dirt; med. a round spot or……

Chess A rook, castle; also, a representation of a rook in a coat of arms. …

(a) A small, portable writing tablet made from a slab of wood or other hard material, often covered with wax in which the characters are incised; pl. a set of tablets, usu. tied or hinged together, a……