To check; to reprimand.
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
To sob with convulsions.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Conspicuously short.
Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
To provide for or nourish.
To encourage or sanction (something).
To maintain, or keep in existence.
To allow, accept, or admit (e.g. an objection or motion) as valid.
To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.