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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.

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

The state or position of beds and layers.

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.

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

ue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

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.

Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson.

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

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot,

A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock next overlying ore, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for…

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.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic.

use un an electric light apparatus. -- Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary bituminous coal; -- known to miners as mother of coal.

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.

(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.