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

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to a cotyloid cavity; as, the cotyloid ligament, or notch.

A suit of cards, as hearts or clubs; --used in some French games.

A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc. The old gods of our own race whose names . . . serve as counters reckon the days of the week. E. B. Tylor. What comes the wool to . . . I can not do it witthout counters. Shak.

To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. Christian court, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. -- Court breeding, education acquired at court. -- Court card. Same as Coat card. -- Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news r…

The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

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

ird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. Darwin.

A kind of gambling game consisting in pitching coins to or towards the ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]

A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women,diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes . . . which raised a great deal of mirth. Addison.

In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

A gambling game with dice. [Local, U.S.]

A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.

A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

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.