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game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so called because 100 points won the game. Nares.

f 12 o'clock on a dial. The fescue of the dial is upon the christcross of noon. Old Play. Nares.

(as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

A kind of confectionery or cake. [Obs.] Nares.

ance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

A crash or clangor made by ringing all the bells of a chime at once. Nares.

A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley. Nares.

A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary. I can not but lament thy splendid wit Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools. Cowper.

(Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. Nares.

The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

Of or pertaining to Complutum (now Alcala de Henares) a city near Madrid; as, the Complutensian Bible.

rance. [Obs.] Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare. Milton.

ne of the carpal bones usually articulating wich the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

A horse with a docked tail; hence, anything cut short. [Obs] Nares.

rors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

lieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Tim. iii. 13. Nimble jugglers that deceive the eye. Shak. What can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Milton.…

To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net. Did to a lonely cot his steps decoy. Thomson. E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy. Goldsmith.…