cry 
4. Public notice or advertisement by outcry, 
as hawkers give of their wares; proclamation, 
as by a town crier. 
Also yf tin i In- niiy man Unit hangith nut .>ut a lanternc 
with ai-amli 1 IUVTUIJIIK tlu-rhi urnliiiu't tin Mayrsery. 
.I,;,,././'. Clininielf, 1502 (e<l. lull, p. 91). 
At iniilniulit tlu-rc w:i a cry made, Behold, tin- lu-iilr 
groom i ...... rih. Mat. xxv. . 
5. Public or general accusation ; evil report 
or fame. 
Because the try of [againstl Sodom and Gomorrah Is 
great, . . . I will go down now, ami see whether they have 
done altogi-tliri a< i nnliiiK to the cry of ft. 
IJi-n. xvili. 20, 21. 
6. A pack of dogs. 
You common rry of curs ! Shak., Cor., ill. 3. 
\ r/-|/ nf h. II llMlllliU llrM-l' rr:i>ill^ liaik'il. 
II Mm, P. L., 11. 654. 
Hence 7. In contempt, a pack or company 
of persons. 
\\ oulil nut this . . . get me fellowship fu a cry of play* 
ers? filmic.. Hamlet, HI. 2. 
8. A word or phrase used in battle, as a shout 
to encourage or rally soldiers ; a battle-cry or 
war-cry. 
Enter an English Soldier, crying A Talbot! ATalbot! . . . 
SoM. The fry of Talbot serves me for a sword. 
Shnt., 1 Hen. VI., II. 1. 
Ho 1 friends ! mid ye that follow, cry my cry I 
William Mvrri, Doom of King Acrisfus. 
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. "AH now depends upon a good 
cry." Disraeli, t'onlngsby, II. 3. 
If the project falls in the present Reichstag, it would 
certainly be a bad cry for the government at the next 
elections. Contemporary Rev., X 1,1 \. 290. 
10. The peculiar crackling noise made by me- 
tallic tin when bent A tax cry, a great distance ; a 
long way. 
It's afar cry to Lochawe. . Proverb. 
We must not be impatient ; it Is a far cry from the 
dwellers in caves to even such civilization aa we have 
achieved. Lmrrll, Harvard Anniversary. 
Great cry and little WOOL much ado about nothing ; a 
great show and pretense witli little or no result. Hue and 
cry. See A2. 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 
reputation. Qoldtmitk, Citizen of the World, xx. 
cryalt (kri'al), n. [Cf. W. cregyr, a heron, a 
screamer; creydd, creyr, a heron; crychydd, a 
heron, a ruffler.] The heron. 
cryancet, . Same as creance, 3. 
cryer (kri'er), . 1. Same as crier. 2.' The 
female or young of the goshawk, Astur palum- 
ImrhiK, called falcon-gentle. 
crying (kri'ing), )>. a. [Ppr. of cry, v. i.. in def . 
2rTl. Demanding attention or remedy; no- 
torious; unendurable. 
Those other crying sins of ours . . . pull . . . plagues and 
miseries upon our heads. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 86. 
2. Melancholy; lamenting. 
Who shall now sing your crying elegies, 
And strike a sad soul into senseless pictures? 
lira u. aiut /'/., I'bilaster, III. 2. 
crying-bird (kri'ing-berd), n. The courlan or 
caraii, .Ininiu.t jiictus. 
crying-OUtt (kri'iug-out'), n. [See to cry out (c), 
under cry, r. .] The confinement of a woman ; 
labor. 
Aunt Nell, who, by the way, was at the cryinn ,-.</. 
Kichanlmn, Sir Charles Grandison.VI. 323. 
crymodynia (kri-mo-din'i-a), n. [Nti., < Gr. 
K/iv/iof, cold, a cold, a chill, + Mi-it/, pain.] 
Chronic rheumatism. Dunglittoii. 
crynog, Same as tranock. 
cryoconite (kri-ok'o-uit), n. [< Gr. xprof, cold, 
frost, + Kovif, dust, + -ite*.] The name given 
by NordenskjOld to a gray powder noticed by 
him in various places in Greenland on the sur- 
face of the inland ice, at a great distance from 
earth or rock, and which he considered to be of 
cosmic (meteoric) origin. This view wu baaed In 
part on the occurrence, in addition to magnetite, of fine 
particles of metallic iron In the powder. The theory of 
tin- i-osinic origin of cryoconite does not appear as yet to 
have been generally admitted. 
cryogen (kn'o-jen), . [< Gr. xpi'of, cold, frost, 
+ -jrrw, producing: see-gen.] That which pro- 
(liiccs colil: a freezing-mixture ; an appliance 
IT '-onlriviince for reducing temperature below 
('. r. 
1 370 
forms an extensive bed. it occurs In clearaule 
manes, also In distinct crystals, and has a glistening vitre- 
ous luster, and a pale grayish-white, snow-white, or yi-1- 
lowlsli l>rown color. It is lni]irtnnt u a source of the 
nu-tal iiliiiiiiniiini, and Is also used for making soda ami 
some kinds of glass. Cryolite has also been discovered at 
Miask in the I'nil mountains, and in small uuantlties in 
Colorado. Cryolite glass, or fait ratt porcelain, a semi- 
tran.spari -nt or milky-white glass, made of silica and IT>.. 
lite with oxiil nf /IIM-, melted together. Also called wiW 
tjltinn ami .r'tixiWt' fxn-crtain. 
cryophorus (kri-of'o-rus), n. [NL., < Or. icplfx, 
cola, frost, + -</>6pos, -bearing, < fipetv = E. 
bear 1 .] An instrument for showing the fall of 
temperature in water by evaporation. One form 
consist* of two glass glolies united by a tube. Water Is 
poured into one globe and l>oiled to expel the air, anil 
while boiling the apparatus is hermetically sealed. When 
cool, the prewiuri' of the included vapor Is reduced to that 
due to the temperature of the surrounding atmosphere. 
Tin- empty globe Is then surrounded by a freezing-mixture, 
the vapor is condensed, and rapid evaporation takes place 
from tin- other globe, which is soon frozen by the lowering 
of its temperature. 
cryophyllite (kri-o-fil'It), n. [< Gr. npf'Of, cold, 
frost, + fi-Mjiv, leaf, + -te 2 .] A kind of mica 
occurring in the granite of Cape Ann, Massa- 
chusetts. 
Crypsirhina (krip-si-ri'nS), . [NL., orig. 
Crypsirina (Vieillot, 1816), also, and more cor- 
rectly, Cryptrirrhina (on another model, Crypto- 
rhina), < Gr. Kpiirreiv, hide (/cpi>Vr, a hiding), 
+ fiic, !>iv, nose.] A genus of tree-crows, of 
the subfamily Callceatinte, having as its type C. 
varians, the temia or so-called variable crow 
of Java. The genus is extended by some authors to In- 
clude the CaUaeatinte at large, or birds of the genera Tern- 
nuru*, Dtndrocitta, and Vafiabuntla. 
crypsis (krip'sis), . [Also krypgig, < Gr. n/n-^nc, 
concealment, < npiirreiv, conceal: see crypt.] 
Concealment. See extract. 
The Tubingen divines advocated the krypsw or conceal- 
ment, that Is, the secret use of all divine attributes. 
Scha/. 
crypsorchid, crypsorchis (krip-sdr'Md, -kis), 
H. [< Gr. Kpvirretv (future Kpvijieiv), hide, H- opx'f, 
testicle.] Same as cryptorchin. 
crypt (kript), n. [= Dan. krypte = F. crypte = 
Pr. cropta (also crota) = Sp. criptn = Pg. cryptu 
= It. critta, < L. crypto, < Gr. Kpinrrri or Hpvirri/, 
a vault, crypt, fern, of KfrmrAf, hidden, secret, 
verbal adj. of Kpi-irrtiv, hide, keep secret, akin 
to KalinrTetv, cover, hide. See erode, croud, and 
grot, grotto, ult. doublets of crypt.'] 1. A hid- 
den or secret recess; a subterranean cell or 
cave, especially one constructed or used for the 
interment of bodies, as in the catacombs. 
What had been a wondrous and intimate experience of 
the soul, a flash into the very crypt and basis of man's na- 
ture from the fire of trial, had become ritual and tradition. 
l, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 237. 
2. A part of an ecclesiastical building, as a 
cathedral, church, etc., below the chief floor, 
cryolite, kryolite (kri'o-lit), n. [< Gr. icpi-of, 
uold, frost, + /./(tof, stone.] Afluorid of sodium 
and aluminium found in Greenland, where it 
Crypt. Cathedral at Bourges, France. 
commonly set apart for monumental purposes, 
and sometimes used as a chapel or a shnne. 
My knees are bow'd in crypt and shrine. 
7>mii/iii, Sir Galahad. 
A ./'/;"'. as a portion of a church, had ita origin in the 
subterranean chattels known as " confessiones," erected 
around the tomb of a martyr, or the place of his martyr- 
ilom. Kii'-iic. Brit., VI. 667. 
3. In nnat., a follicle; a small simple tubular 
or saccular secretory pit ; a small glandular 
cavity : as, a mucous crypt (a follicular secre- 
Cryptobranchidse 
tory pit in mucous membrane). Heo foltirli-. 
Also crypto. Crypts of Lieberkuhn, ih- foili. !, < 
Lleberkulm in the intestines. Multllocular crypt, u 
racemose glandular follicle ; a secretory pit u ith branches 
or divert!" iihi. 
crypta (krip'tji), . ; pi. rri/iitie (-tfi). [NL. 
use of L. crypta : see crypt.] In mint., same ax 
rri/pt, ;i. 
Cryptacanthodes (krip'ta-kan-tho'dez), . 
[NL., < Gr. iwvirT&f, hidden (see crypt), + 4*ai*i, 
spine, + (Wof, form.] A genus of blennioid 
fishes, typical of the family Cryptacunthodida. 
cryptacanthodid (krip-ta-kan'tho-did), n. A 
fish of the family I'ryiitticaHthodiatf. 
Cryptacanthodidse (krip'ta-kan-thod'i-de), w. 
pi. [NL., < Crypt<ic*inthodeH + -idee.] A fam- 
Uy of fishes, typified by the genus Cryptacan- 
thodes. They are blennioid fishes with an eel. like as- 
pect, a long dorsal fin sustained by stout spines only, no 
ventrals, and an oblong cuboid head. Two specie* Inhabit 
the northwestern Atlantic, and have been called wry 
iiiiiilm. and one Inhabits the Alaskan seas. Also Crypta- 
canthoidtK. 
cryptae, . Plural of crypta. 
cryptal (krip'tal), a. [< crypt + -at.] Inanat. 
and physiol., pertaining to or derived from a 
crypt. See crypt, 3. 
The use of the cryptal or follicular secretion is to keep 
the parts on which it is poured supple and moist, and to 
preserve them from the action of irritating bodies with 
which they have to come in contact. Dungliton. 
crypted (krip'ted), a. [< crypt + -erf 2 .] In 
arch., vaulted. [Rare.] 
A cryiited hall and stair lead to the chapter-house. 
A. J. C. Hare, Russia, lii. 
cryptic (krip'tik), a. and n. [< LL. crypticux, 
< Gr. HpwrrvKof. hidden, < KpoTrrof, hidden: see 
crypt.] I. a. Hidden; secret; occult. 
Tills cryptic and involved method of his providence have 
I ever admired. Sir T. Bnuw, Religlo Medld, L 17. 
The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every 
comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic 
might. Kmerton, Experience. 
Cryptic syllogism, a syllogism not in regular form, the 
premises being transposed, or one of them omitted, or 
lioth omitted, and only tin- middle term indicated. The 
following Is an example of the last kind : "The existence 
of Joan of Arc proves that true greatness Is not confined 
to tile male sex." 
Il.t . The art of recording any discourse so 
that the meaning is concealed from ordinary 
readers. 
There lie also other diversities of Methods, vulgar and 
received ; as that of Resolution or Analysis, of Constitu- 
tion or Synstasis, of Concealment or Cryptic, etc., which 
I do allow well of. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning (Original English ed.), 
I Works, III. 407. 
cryptical (krip'ti-kal). a. Same as cryptic. 
cryptically (ferip'tT-kal-i), adr. Secretly; in 
an occult manner. 
We take the word acid in a familiar sense, without cryp- 
tically distinguishing it from those sapors that are akin 
to It. Boyle. 
OrypticU8(krip'ti-kus), n. [NL.,<LL. crypticug, 
co vered, concealed : see cryptic.] Inzool.: (a) 
A genus of atracheliute heteromerous beetles, 
of the family Tenebrionida: ( '. quixquilius, a Eu- 
ropean species, is an example. Latreille, 1817. 
(6f) A genus of birds, of the family ifomotida', 
or sawbills. Hirainson, 1837. 
crypto-. [L., etc., crypto-, < Gr. Kprnrof, hidden, 
secret: see crypt.] An element in words of 
Greek origin, meaning ' hidden, concealed, not 
evident or obvious.' See calypto-. 
cryptobrancb. (krip'to-brangk), a. and n. I. a. 
Same as cryptobranehiate. 
H. H. An animal with covered or concealed 
gills, as a crustacean, mollusk, or reptile. 
CryptobrancMata (krip-to-brang-ki-a't&), n. 
;/'. [NL., neut. pi. of cryptobranchiatus, having 
concealed gills : see cryptobranc hiate.] A group 
of animals naving concealed gills. Specifically 
(a) A division of crustaceans, including the decapods. (6) 
A division of gastropods (the typical Darididcr) having 
tin- lintm-hiii' c-iiinliineil in a single retractile crown, (r) A 
subclass of gastropods, containing most of the class : con- 
trasted with ritlinnhraitfhiatn and Xmtibrajirhiata. J. K. 
dray, 1821. (rf) The pteropods considered as a suborder 
of tliovious gastropods. Dfshayft. 1830. (f) A division uf 
in-i-li li- :imptii!>i;ms. Also Cryptooranchia in all senses. 
cryptobranehiate (krip-to-brang'ki-at), . [< 
NL. cryptobranchiatus, < Gr. Kpvxroc., hidden, + 
ftpa}xta, gills.] Having hidden gills ; having 
the branchiaj concealed; specifically, of or per- 
taining to the Cryptobranchiata in any sense. 
Also cryptobraiicli. 
Cryptobranchidae (krip-to-brang'ki-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < OmMrflMkM -t- -idtr.] A family of 
cryptobranehiate or derotreme urodele amphib- 
ians: synonymous with MeMopomidce (which 
see). It contains the genera Amphiuma, Meno- 
poma, and Sieboldia or Cryptobranchua. 
