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chess
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noun (n)

  • weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat(noun.plant)
    source: wordnet30
  • a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king(noun.act)
    Synonym:
    chess game
    source: wordnet30
  • 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.(noun)
    source: webster1913
  • 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.(noun)
    source: webster1913
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