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A game at cards. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Boot crimp. See under Boot.

A child's game played on paper or on a slate, consisting of lines arranged in the form of a cross.

ply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. Bacon.

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.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

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

a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

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.

or living. And teach customs which are not lawful. Acts xvi. 21. Moved beyong his custom, Gama said. Tennyson. A custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

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.