Lexic.us

Definition of Chess

1. Noun. Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat.

2. 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.

Definition of Chess

1. 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.

2. 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 Willard's bromus.

Definition of Chess

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. (context: now chiefly US) A type of grass, generally considered a weed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chess

1. a weed [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chess

chervonets chervontsy chesed cheshire cheshires cheshirization chesible chesibles chesil chesils

cheslip cheslips chesnut chesnuts chesounable chess (current term) chess-apple chess-clock chess boxing chess clock

chess club chess compositions chess game chess master chess masters chess match chess move chess piece chess pieces chess player

Literary usage of Chess

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1877)
"National chess Tournament. New York, 1857. National Gazette for February 6th, 1837. ... Prospectus for a West-End chess Club, by MJ Hardline, New York. ..."

2. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"Social chess : a collection of short and 7912. ее. 14. ... MINCHIN (JI) Games played in the London International chess Tournament, 1884. pp. 371. Land. ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"The British chess Club entertained Zukertort in London in November 1885, previously to his departure. He won four out of the first live games, ..."

4. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1863)
"If he had said chess, there would have been something in it ; and then he might have thrown in the rest of life as well. In epigrammatic tartness no doubt ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1897)
"SOME NOTES ON chess. ELIA must have been in a rarely unsympathetic mood when lie penned Sarah Battle's scornful disparagement of chess. ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1881)
"It would be an injustice to the noble game of chess were we guided by ... The chess-problem appearing in that article was especially composed by Mr. F. ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"English chess owes much to W. Lewis and George Walker for their multifarious ... His other works are the chess Player's Text Book and The Chus Player's ..."

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