See Also: prosternation(dictionary)
prosternation(medicine)
Check-in(tourism)
d check(medicine)
Check(money)
name-check(dictionary)
check(encyclopedia)
check(dictionary)
check-(dictionary)
check(4)(dictionary)

check(1) (iou) and prosternation (iou)


check(1) (iou)



check interjection. ME.

In chess, notifying the exposure of an opponent's king to direct attack. ME.
Expr. assent or agreement. (Cf. CHECK noun1 10, its probable source.) N. Amer. colloq. E20.
N. Mailer 'No audience..is going to trust a man whose wife takes a leap.' 'Check.'

prosternation (iou)



prosternation noun.L15-E19.
[Old & mod. French, from prosterner or Latin prosternare by-form of prosternere: see PROSTRATE verb, -ATION.]
The action or an act of prostrating someone or something; the state of being prostrated; prostration.