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▪ I. ˈcrying, vbl. n.
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1. The action of the verb cry in its various senses; shouting, lamentation, weeping, etc.
a1340Hampole Psalter iii. 4 His prayere he calles criynge. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. vi. (1495) 416 Cryenge of the owle by nyght. c1400Destr. Troy 10180 The clamor was kene, crying of pepull. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 168 Thy crying, foole, shall not wake him out of that sleepe. 1611Bible 1 Sam. iv. 14 Eli heard the noise of the crying. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 24 My crying was over. 1891F. Barrett Sin of Olga Z. I. viii. 115 There's a good deal of crying! And we mope and look miserable.
2. With adverbs, as crying out, exclamation, calling out, outcry; † spec. accouchement (obs.); crying up, extolling, laudation, etc.
1483Cath. Angl. 82 A Criynge owte, exclamacio. 1676Allen Address Nonconf. 158 A zealous crying up one, and crying down another. 1692Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 417 He has ordered all the English nobility and gentry to be present at her crying out. 1715tr. C'tess D' Anois' Wks. 479 Couriers were dispatch'd..to desire them to come to Her Majesty's Crying-out. 1754Richardson Grandison (1812) VI. 323 (D.) Aunt Nell..was at the crying out.
3. attrib., as crying cold, a cold that makes the eyes run.
1761Foote Liar i. Wks. 1799 I. 290 All the sighing, dying, crying crotchets, that the whole race of rhymers have ever produced. 1843Sir T. Watson Lect. Physic (1871) II. 55, I found her suffering under what is popularly called a ‘crying cold’.
▪ II. ˈcrying, ppl. a.
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That cries.
1. Exclaiming, shouting, clamorous; roaring.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxiii. (1495) 455 A cryenge see and an vnpeasyble is peryllous. 1483Cath. Angl. 82 Criynge, clamans. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 230 My selfe the crying Fellow did pursue. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 495 When crying Cormorants forsake the Sea.
2. Wailing, weeping.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 814 And fright her crying babe with Tarquin's name. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 380 Annoyed by invalids and crying children.
3. Of evils: That forces itself upon notice, and calls loudly for redress; clamant, notorious.
1607Topsell Serpents (1608) 736 Odious crying sins. 1640Petit. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1692) iii. I. 21 Representing Ship-Money as a Great and Crying Grievance. 1660Gauden God's Great Demonstr. 52 The cryingest injustice and cruelty in the world. 1711Addison Spect. No. 61 ⁋5 There is a most crying Dulness on both Sides. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. iii. 155 The most crying evil of this period. 1890F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family xi. 95 It would be a crying shame, if you could.
advb.1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1877) 126 These two old men..have made themselves crying drunk. |