cruyshage (kroʻshaj)

[Origin obscure.] A shark, Lamna cornubica. cruzado, n. See crusado2. cry (krī), v.; pret. and pp. cried, ppr. crying. [Early mod. E. also crye, crie; shriek (ML. cridare, clamor, cry, also proclaim), prob. also ult. E. quar rell and querulous, q. v. Cf. W. crêu, cry, cri, a cry; prob. from E.] I. in trans. 1. To speak earnestly or with a loud voice; call loudly; exclaim or proclaim with vehemence, as in an earnest appeal or prayer, in giving public notice, or to attract attention: with to or unto, formerly sometimes on or upon, before the person addre ed. The people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem. Gen. xli. 55. Jer. ii. 2. No longer on Saint Dennis will we cry . Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 6. With longings and breathings in his soul which, he says, are not to be expre ed, he cried on Christ to call him, being "all on a flame" to be in a converted state. Southey , Bunyan, p. 22. IMG:content-1740.png:[blocks in formation] The medes [meadows] clensed tyme is now to make, And beestes from no we forth from hem [them] to crie. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. 51. To demand; call for. The proud sheryfe of Notyngham Dyde crye a full fayre play. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 93). The affair cries haste. Shak., Othello, i. 3. This is a new way of begging, and a neat one; And this cries money for reward, good store too. remedy; appeal; make a demand. The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. Gen. iv. 10. 3. To utter a loud, sharp, or vehement inarticulate sound, as a dog or other animal. In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. Shak ., Tempest, v. 1. How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs. Shak., Hamlet, iv. 5. And farther on we heard a beast that cried . William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 26. 4. To call out or exclaim marticulately; make an inarticulate outery, as a person under excitement of any kind; especially, to utter a loud sound of lamentation or suffering, such as is usually accompanied by tears. Whan he com be-fore the town he began to make grete sorow, and cried high and cleer that the i with-ynne vpon the walles myght wele it here. Esau. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 261. cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry. Gen. xxvii. 34. Hence-5. To weep; shed tears, whether with or without sound. The ministers for the purpose hurried thence Me, and thy crying self. Shak ., Tempest, i. 2. Her who still weeps with spungy eyes, And her who is dry cork, and never cries. Donne. 6t. To bid at an auction. To our office, where we met all, for the sale of two ships by an inch of candle (the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry , and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. Pepys , Diary, I. 120. To cry against, to utter reproof or threats against with a loud voice or earnestly; denounce. Arise, go to Nineveh,... and cry against it. Jonah i. 2. To cry back. (a) In hunting , to return as on a trail; hark back. (b) To revert to an ancestral type. See extract. The effect of a cro will frequently disappear for several generations, and then appear again in a very marked de gree. This principle is known to physicians as Atavism, and amongst breeders of stock such progeny is said to cry back a term derived from a well known hunting expre ion. Phin , Dict. Apiculture, p. 27. To cry out. (a) To exclaim; vociferate; clamor. And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out. Luke ix. 39. She was never known to cry out , or discover any fear, in Swift , Death of Stella. a coach or on horseback. (6) To complain loudly; utter lamentations; expostulate: often with against. When any evil has been upon philosophers, they groan as pitifully, and cry out as loud, as other men. Til lots on. (ct) To be in childbirth. K. Hen. What, is she crying out ? Lov . So said her woman; and that her sufferance made Almost each pang a death. Shak ., Hen. VIII., v. 1. II. trans. 1. To utter loudly; sound or noise abroad; proclaim; declare loudly or publicly. Let heaven, and men, and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak. Shak., Othello, v. 2. Then of their se ion ended they bid cry With trumpets' regal sound the great result. Milton , P. L., ii. 514. These are the men that still cry the King, the King, the Lord's Anointed. Milton , Church-Government, ii., Con. 2. To give notice regarding; advertise by crying; hawk: as, to cry a lost child; to cry goods. I am resolv'd to ask every man I meet; and if I cannot hear of him the sooner, I'll have him cried . Shirley, Love in a Maze, v. 4. Men of di olute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Til lots on . Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. Emerson, Misc., p. 87. (b) To overbear; put down. I'll to the king; And from a mouth of honour quite cry down This Ipswich fellow's insolence. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 1. To cry halves. See half , n.- To cry mewt. See the extract. With respect to crying mew, it appears to have been an old and approved method of expre ing dislike at the first representation of a play. Decker has many allusions to the practice; and, what appears somewhat strange, in his Sat i rom as tix, charges Jonson with mewing at the fate of his own works. "When your plays are misliked at court you shall not cry mew, like a pu , and say you are glad you write out of the courtier's element." Gifford, Note to B. Jonson's Every Man out of his [Humour, Ind. To cry (one) mercy, to beg (one's) pardon. Forthi I counseile alle Cristene to crie Crist merc i , And Marie his moder to beo mene bi-twene. Piers Plowman (A), viii. 182. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. Sir, this me enger makes so much haste that I cry you mercy for spending any time of this letter in other employment than thanking you for yours. Donne, Letters, xli. I cry you mercy , madam; was it you? To cry one's eyes out, to weep inordinately. - To cry up. ( a ) To praise; applaud; extol: as, to cry up a man's talents or patriotism, or a woman's beauty; to cry up the administration. Laughing loud, and crying up your own wit, though perhaps borrowed. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. L. Thus finally it appears that those purer Times were no such as they cry'd up , and not to be follow'd without suspicion, doubt, and danger. Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. (b) To raise the price of by proclamation: as, to cry up certain coins, cry (kri), n.; pl. cries (kriz). [ And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt. Ex. xi. 6. He for get teth not the cry of the humble. Ps. ix. 12. One cry of grief and rage rose from the whole of Protestant Europe. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi, 2. A loud inarticulate sound uttered by man or beast, as in pain or anger, or to attract attention. I could have kept a hawk, and well have holloa'd To a deep cry of dogs. Fletcher ( and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. 4. One deep cry Of great wild beasts. Tennyson, Palace of Art. IMG:content-1741.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1742.png:[blocks in formation] Enter an English Soldier, crying A Talbot! A Talbot!. Sold. The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. Ho! friends! and ye that follow, cry my cry ! William Morris, Doom of King Acrisius. 9. A party catchword; an object for the at- tainment of which insistence and iteration are employed for partizan purposes; some topic, event, etc., which is used, or the importance of which is magnified, in a partizan manner. "And to manage them [a constituency] you must have a good cry ," said Taper. "All now depends upon a good cry." Disraeli , Coningsby, ii. 3. If the project fails in the present Reichstag, it would certainly be a bad cry for the government at the next elections. Contemporary Rev. , XLIX. 290. 10. The peculiar crackling noise made by metallic tin when bent. - A far cry, a great distance; a long way. It's a far cry to Lochawe. Proverb. We must not be impatient; it is a far cry from the dwellers in caves to even such civilization as we have achieved. Lowell, Harvard Anniversary. Great cry and little wool, much ado about nothing; a great show and pretense with little or no result. - Hue and cry. See hue2.- In full cry, in full pursuit: said of the dogs in a hunt when all are on the scent and are baying in chorus: often used figuratively. The dunces hunt in full cry, till they have run down a Goldsmith , Citizen of the World, xx. reputation. cryalt (kri'al), n. [Cf. W. cregyr , a heron, a screamer; crëydd, creyr , a heron; crychydd , a heron, a ruffler.] The heron.