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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.

The mole cricket. [Prov. Eng.]

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 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.

An insect that turns about nimbly; the mole cricket; -- called also fan cricket. Johnson.

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

of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker. Bowling crease (Cricket), a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets. -- Return crease (Cricket), a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles…

(fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. -- Fan cricket (Zoöl.), a mole cricket. -- Fan light (Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (…

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.

A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal.