CRICKET, (Encycl.) Crickets are thought to be ruminating animals, and certainly are furnished with several different stomachs. In medicine they are believed to be diuretic, and less dangerous than cantharides;
rides; for which intention they are dried and powdered, and given in doses from 12 grains to a scruple. The house cricket only flies from the light, as many other insects do; it feeds almost on every thing. The males only chirp; and their monotony, however disagreeable to some people, is pleasant enough to their own females, for it is the voice of love; and it is continual, night and day, except in very cold weather. They become habituated to bear all kinds of noise; but the field cricket is very timorous, and chirps only in the heat of the finest days of summer.