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A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson.

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson.

A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak.

The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah.…

To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate. The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by the love of empire and ambition. Pope.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.

g or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.

Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.

An interhyal ligament or cartilage.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

Between sesamoid bones; as, intersesamoid ligaments.