(verb) – To control or restrain; to hold within bounds. To verify or audit Particularly used with reference to the control or supervision of one department bureau, or oftlce over another. Check-roll In English law. A list or book, containing the names of such as are attendants on, or in the pay of, the queen or other great personages, as their household servants.
(noun) – A draft or order upon a bank or banking-house, purporting to be drawn upon a deposit of funds, for the payment at all events of a certain sum of money to a certain person therein named, or to him or his order, or to bearer, and payable instantly on demand. 2 Daniel, Neg. Inst