Euchone (ukone)

[NL., a beautiful worm of the New England coast, builds a slender tube covered with fine sand, from which it protrudes its long branch iæ like a spreading flower. n. euchre (ūkėr), [Sometimes written eucre; the spelling is evidently corrupt. If of G. origin, as sometimes said (with some probability; cf. bow er6 in this game, of G. origin), it would perhaps represent a LG. form * juker, but no connection is made out. Cf. G. jucks, a joke (=E. joke ), with E. joker, a certain card; LG. juch - hei, a merry company, an exclamation of boisterous joy, = MHG. juch, > G. jauchzen, shout.] 1. A game of cards played by two, three, or four persons with the 32, 28, or 24 highest cards of the pack. Five cards are dealt to each player, two and then three at a time, or three and then two, and one to mark trumps is turned face up; the eldest hand has the right either of ordering this card into the dealer's hand, who discards another, and then playing the game, or of "pa ing"- that is, doing nothing; likewise the second and third hands if more than two play; should all pa , the dealer can take up into his hand the trump card, or can pa , which he does by turning down the card which had been turned face up; if the latter, the eldest hand either names a new suit as trumps, the game being then played through, or pa es again. Should he pa , the second hand, the third hand, and the dealer in turn have the same right of naming the trump Euchone elegans. or pa ing. If all pa on this second round, then a new In A the trochal disk rounded, the wreath in interrupted curves and clusters, the trophi sub malleate or virgate, lorica in two parts meeting "in a furrow or entire with additional pieces, and the foot jointed, feebly retractile, not telescopic or transversely wrinkled, furcate or stylate. sible, and the highest card takes the trick; the winning of three tricks counts one, of five tricks two; should a player on one side order take up, or name the trump and fail to secure at least three tricks, that side is euchred, and its opponent scores two. The cards rank from ace through king, queen, etc., to the lowest card used, except in trumps, where the knave, known as the right bower, is the highest, and the other knave of the same color, or left bower, is the next highest. Sometimes an add i the cards, is used, the game being then known as railroad euchre.