cm 
gains two j and he that reaches thirty-«ne 
exactly gains two, or comes nearest under 
it, gains one. Here too, in playing of 
the cards, you may make pairs, pairs-royal, 
flushes, &c. which are all counted as above. 
As to the crib, it is the dealer’s, who may 
make as many as he can out of them, toge- 
ther with the card turned up ; counting as 
above : if he can make none, he is said to 
be bilked. 
Thus they play and deal by turns, till the 
game of sixty-one is up ; and if either of the 
gamesters reach this before the other is 
forty-five, this last is said to be lurched, and 
the other gains a double game. 
CRIBEARIA, in botany, a genus of the 
Cryptogamia Fungi ; case furnished with a 
double membrane, the outer one thin and 
fugacious, inner one reticulate ; seeds with- 
out filaments, ejected through the foramina. 
One species, viz. the pallida. 
CRICKET, the name of an exercise or 
game with bats and balls. The laws of 
this game, as settled by the cricket club in 
1744, and played at the Artillery-ground, 
London, are as follow. The pitching the 
first wicket is to be determined by the cast 
of a piece of money. When the first wicket 
is pitched, and the popping-crease cut, 
which must be exactly three feet ten inches 
from the wicket, the other wicket is to be 
pitched directly opposite at twenty-two 
yards distance, and the other popping-crease 
cut three feet ten inches before it. The 
bowling-creases must be cut in a direct 
line from each stump. The stumps must 
be twenty-two Inches long, and the bail six 
inches. The ball must weigh between five 
and six ounces. When the w'ickets are both 
pitched, and all the creases cut, the party 
that wins the toss up may order which side 
shall go in first, at his option. 
The laws for the bowlers. Four balls and 
— The bowler must deliver the ball 
with one foot behind the crease, even with 
the wicket, and when he has bowled one 
ball, or more, shall bowl to the number 
four before he ciianges wickets ; and he 
.shall change but once in the same innings. 
He may order the player that is in at his 
wicket to stand on which side of it he 
pleases at a reasonable distance. If he de- 
livers the ball with his hinder foot over the 
bowling-crease, the umpire shall call no 
ball, though she be struck, or the player is 
bowled out, which he shall do without being 
asked, and no person shall have any right to 
ask him. 
CRI 
Lmcsfor the strikers, or those that are In. 
— If the wicket is bowled down, it is out. 
If he strikes or treads down, or he falls him- 
self upon the wicket in striking, but not in 
over-running, it is out. A stroke or nip 
over or under his bat, or upon his hands, 
but not arms, if the ball be held before she 
touches ground, though she be hugged to 
the body, it is out. If in striking, both his 
feet are over the popping-crease, and his 
wicket put down, except his bat is down 
within, it is out. If he runs out of his ground 
to hinder a catch, it is out. If a ball is 
nipped up, and he strikes her again wilfully 
before she come to the wicket, it is out. If 
the players have crossed each other, he that 
runs for the wicket that is put down, is out : 
if they are not crossed, he that returns is 
out. If in running a notch, the wicket is 
struck down by a throw before bis foot, 
hand, or bat is over the popping-crease, or 
a stump hit by the ball, though the bail was 
down, it is out. But if the bail is down be- 
fore, he that catches the ball must strike a 
stump out of the ground-ball in hand, then 
it is out. If the striker touches or takes up 
the ball before she is lain quite still, un- 
less asked by the bowler or wicket-keeper, 
it is out. 
Bat, foot, or hand over the crease. — AVhen 
the ball has been in hand by one of the 
keepers or stoppers, and the player has 
been at home, he may go where he pleases 
till the next ball is bowled. If either of the 
strikers is crossed in his running ground de- 
signedly, which design must be determined 
by the umpires, the umpires may order 
that notch to be scored. When the ball is 
hit up, either of the strikers may hinder the 
catch in his running ground, or if she is hit 
directly across the wickets, the other player 
may place his body any where within the 
swing of the bat, so as to hinder the bowler 
from catching her : but, he must neither 
strike at her, nor touch her with his hands. 
If a striker nips a ball up just before him, 
he may fall before his wicket, or pop down 
his bat before she comes to it, to save it. 
The bail hanging on one stump, though the 
ball hit the wicket, it is not out. 
Laws for the wicket-keepers. — The wicket- 
keeper shall stand at a reasonable distance 
behind the wicket, and shall not move till 
the ball is out of the bowler’s hand, and 
shall not by any noise incommode the stri- 
ker ; and if his hands, knees, foot, or head 
be over, or before the wicket, though the 
ball hit it, it shall not be out. 
Laws for the umpires. — To allow two 
