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A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine. [Written also chloropikrin.]

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. Johnson.

The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."

of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles…

eath by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.

(fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (…

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.

A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.

asshopper lobster (Zoöl.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.] -- Grasshopper warbler (Zoöl.), cricket bird.

A cricket or grasshopper. [Prov. Eng.]

A genus of insects including the common crickets.

A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.

The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

The European cricket warbler.

A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service; -- so named from the proving grounds at Lydd, England.

A high explosive similar to lyddite, consisting principally of picric acid, used in the French military service.

und drains. [U.S.] Duck mole. See under Duck. -- Golden mole. See Chrysochlore. -- Mole cricket (Zoöl.), an orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllotalpa, which excavates subterranean galleries, and throws up mounds of earth resembling those of the mole. It is said to do damage by injuring the roots of plants. The com…

hey are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.