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called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.

d with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnipsShak. To bowl (a player) out, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.

In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.

s in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move.

n (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

oard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

ing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.

A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player. [Obs.] "A body of five cornets of horse." Clarendon.

order set And every crambo he could get. Swift. Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.

up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.