a. Awe-struck. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. genus of herbs of SW America having usually creamy florets followed by one-seeded fruits in a prominent bristly sheath.
v. i. To play at cricket. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak. ] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus
☞ The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are Gryllus niger, Gryllus neglectus, and others. [ 1913 Webster ]
Balm cricket.
Cricket bird,
Cricket frog,
n. [ AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch. ]
n. One who plays at cricket. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Zool.) The mole cricket. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Shocked; dismayed. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. See Moonstruck. [ 1913 Webster ]
Like planet-stricken men of yore
He trembles, smitten to the core
By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
The prickers, who rode foremost, . . . halted. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See Prick, and cf. Brocket. ] (Zool.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A stout pole for use in making a rick, or for a spar to a boat. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rickety. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. pl. [ Of uncertain origin; but cf. AS. wrigian to bend, D. wrikken to shake, E. wriggle. ] (Med.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also
a.
p. p. & a. from Strike.
Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Gen. xxiv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week. Bayne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who tricks; a trickster. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A trigger. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]