cric (krik)

[F. cric, a screw-jack. Cf. crick4.] In a lamp, an inflecting inflecting ring on the burner, curved inward and serving to condense the flame. E. H. Knight. Cricetinæ (kris-e-ti'nē), n. pl. [NL., pean, Asiatic, and African. See under hamster. extended to certain species of the related family Locustida. In both these families the antennæ are very long and filamentous, with sometimes upward of 100 joints, and the ovipositor is often very large. It is to saltatorial forms, as distinguished from the Acridiidaæ (gra hoppers), that the name cricket is usually applied. The best-known species is the common house-cricket, Acheta or Gryllus domestic a. The field-cricket is Acheta or Gryllus campestris; the mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa vul garis; the grand cricket of New Zealand, A nostos tom a or Dinacrida heteracantha. See also sand-cricket. cricket2 (krik'et), n. [The game is first mentioned in A. D. 1598; prob. lated to the hamster; specifically, of or perfeet in front of this is another line, known as the popping taining to the Cricetinæ. Cricetodon (kri-set'ō-don), n. [NL., crease, of at least as great a length as the bowling-crease; between these two the batsman stands. After the rival sides have to ed for the choice of taking the bat or fielding, two men are sent to the wickets, bat in hand. The opposite or fielding side are all simultaneously engaged: one (the bowler) being stationed behind one wicket for the fo il Murida, related to the hamsters. Cricetus (kri-se'tus), n. [NL., origin not ascertained.] The typical genus of Murida, of purpose of bowling his ball against the opposite wicket, the subfamily Cricetina, containing the hamsters proper, as C. vulgar is. They have 16 teeth, ungrooved incisors, cheek-pouches, a stout form, short tail and limbs, and fo orial habits. See hamster. crichtonite (kri'ton-it), n. [So called from Dr. Crichton, physician to the Emperor of Ru ia.] A variety of titanic iron or men acc a nite found in Dauphiny, France. It has a velvet-black color, and crystallizes in small acute rhombohedrons. crick1t (krik), v. i. [A var. of creak1; F. criquer, creak: see creak1.j To creak.