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[O. Fr. crit; Fr. cri; Ital. grido, grid a; Sp. & Port. grito, grit a; O. Sp. crida, grid a. Cf. M. H. Ger. krei.] 1. The act of crying out; a shriek, a scream, a loud noise, expre ive of pain or suffering. "And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, and there shall be a great cry throughout all the land." IMG:content-1466.png:[blocks in formation] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, Sýrian. 2, œ = ē; ey = a. = 7. A proclamation or public calling out of goods cry-o-hy-drate, s. [Gr. kryos =cold, and Eng., tcryp-to-branch-I-a-ta, for sale, as by hawkers. IMG:content-1467.png:[blocks in formation] 9. A political or electioneering catchword. ""And to manage them you must have a good cry ,' said Taper. 'All now depends upon a good cry.' 'So much for the science of politics,' said the Duke, bringing down a pheasant."-Disraeli: Coningsby, bk. ii., ch. iii. IMG:content-1468.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-1469.png:[blocks in formation] *16. A company, a band. (Used in contempt.) ". get me a fellowship in a cry of players."- Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 2. T (1) Out of cry, out of all cry: Out of or beyond all estimation. IMG:content-1470.png:[merged small][ocr errors] IMG:content-1471.png:[blocks in formation] cry-õph-or-ŭs, s. [Gr. kryos =ice, and phoros = bearing, phero =to bear, to carry.] An instrument to illustrate the proce of freezing by evaporation, invented by Dr. Wollaston. It consists of two bulbs and a connecting tube, air being expelled from the interior by heating the body of water inclosed and hermetically closing the opening. The water being poured into one bulb, the other bulb is placed in a mixture of ice and salt, which condenses the vapor and causes so rapid evaporation from the former bulb as to freeze the water therein. ( Knight .) cry-õph-l-lite, s. [Gr. kryos=cold; phyllon = a leaf, and suff. -ite ( Min .) (q. v.).] Min.: An orthorhombic mineral crystallizing in six-sided prisms. Hardne , 2-2-5; specific gravity, 2.9. Luster of the cleavage faces, pearly to resinous, Color by transmitted light, emerald green, except transverse to the axis, where it is brownish red. Streak, greenish gray. Composition: Silica, 51:49: alumina, 16.77; sesquioxide of iron, 1-97; sesquioxide of manganese, 034; protoxide of iron, 778, . Oc- curs in the granite of Cape Ann. ( Dana .) crypt, s. [Lat. crypt a ; Gr. kryptē = a vault or crypt; kryptos =hidden, secret; krypto =to hide.] 1. Arch .: A vault beneath a church or mauso leum, and either entirely or partly underground. the crypt of that magnificent church."-Malone: Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds. 2 Anat.: A tubular or saccular simple gland. It is called also a follicle or a lacuna. IMG:content-1472.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] "Speakers, whose chief busine is to amuse or delight, do not confine themselves to any natural order, but in a cryptical or hidden method adapt everything to their ends."-Watts. cryp-tic-al-ly, adv . [Eng. cryptical ; -ly.] In a secret or occult manner; secretly, occultly. cryp-ti-cus, s [Gr. kryptikos =fit for conceal- ing; krypto =to conceal.] Entom.: A genus of Beetles, family Tenebrio nide. cryp-tid-In, s. [Gr. kryptos = secret; eidos form; and suff. -in ( Chem .).] Chem.: A base, C11H11N, homologous with chino- lin. Formed in the fraction of the bases from coal- tar, which boils at 274°. IMG:content-1473.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1474.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1475.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: One who studies cryptogamic botany. cryp-tog'-a-mous, a. [Mod. Lat. cryptogam ( ia ) (q. v.), and Eng. suff. -ous.] Bot.: The same as CRYPTOGAMIC (q. v.).