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The ring which turns inward and condenses the flame of a lamp. Knight.

of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.

To play at cricket. Tennyson.

One who plays at cricket.

Resembling a ring; -- said esp. of the cartilage at the larynx, and the adjoining parts.

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

The mole cricket. [Prov. Eng.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.

lso to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

In cricket, the longstop; also, the wicket keeper.

Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. "Balm for each ill." Mrs. Hemans. Balm cricket (Zoöl.), the European cicada. Tennyson. -- Balm of Gilead (Bot.), a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and fr…

a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

Containing, or derived from, carbon and nitrogen. Carbazotic acid (Chem.), picric acid. See under Picric.

A short, sharp, cheerful noise; a chirp; a chirrup; as, the cherup of a cricket.

To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or crickets.