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An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

itting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or bottoné. See und…

A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons.

The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse.

ving the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.

To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]

A player at the game called curling. Burns.

A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark. Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The ob…

A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry. Curry powder (Cookery), a condiment used for making curry, formed of various materials, including strong spices, as pepper, ginger, garlic, coriander seed, etc.

A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

To put to shame; to confound; to confuse; to abash; to depress. South. Dash the proud gamesPope.

Specifically: To distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.

In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games. Hallam.

Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

The science which treats of the ligaments. [R.]

A condition of the score beginning whendeuce, which decides the game.

An old game or sport (revived under this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

A child's game, played with dib bones.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.