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tides are fourteen feet three inches; the night tides 
exceed by one foot nine inches thofe of the day. 
CRUZA'NI, a town of the ifiand of Corfica, on the 
Limone : eighteen miles north-north-eaft of Ajaccio. 
CRUZI'TA,yi In botany, a genus of the clafs te- 
trandria, order digynia. The generic charadters are— 
Calyx : perianthium three-leaved ; the anterior leaf li¬ 
near, acute; the lateral ones ovate, concave, permanent. 
Corolla: petals four, of the appearance of the calyx, 
ovate, concave, the two outward ones perfectly entire ; 
the inner ones with a very thin lacerated border. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments four, capillary, a little fliortcr than the 
calyx; antheras fmall. Piftillum : germ ovate, obtufe, 
comprefied ; ftyle very fhort, two-parted, with fpreading 
divilions ; ftigmas fimple. Pericarpium : none; corolla 
converging, deciduous with the feed. Seed: lingle, 
naked. Linnaeus now names the corolla the interior 
four-leaved calyx, and the perianthium the exterior 
three-leaved caly x ; therefore there is no corolla.— EJJcn- 
tial CharaEler. Inner calyx, four-leaved, outer, three¬ 
leaved ; .^corolla, none ; feed, one. 
There is but one fpecies, Cruzita Hifpanica, or Spanifh 
cruzita : with a high Item ; leaves oppofite, lanceolate, 
quite entire; flowers fpiked, coileefted into a panicle. 
Native of South America. 
CRU'ZY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Herault, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict 
of St. Pons de Thomieres : four leagues weft of Beziers. 
CRU'ZY le CHATEL, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrict of Tonnere ; three leagues and a half eaft of 
Tonnere. 
To CRY, v. n. [crier, Fr.] To fpeak with vehemence 
and loudnefs: 
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! 
Macbeth doth murther deep ! the innocent fleep. Shah.. 
To call importunately.—I cried, by reafon of mine af¬ 
fliction, unto the Lord, and he heard me. Jonas, ii. 2.— 
To talk eagerly or incefiantly ; to repeat continually.— 
They be idle; therefore they cry, faying, let us go. 
Exodus, v. 8.—To proclaim; to make public.—Go and 
cry in the ears of Jerufalem. Jeremiah, ii. 2.—To ex¬ 
claim : 
If deeding, miftrefling, and compliment, 
Take up thy day, the fun himfelf will cry 
Agaitift thee. Herbert. 
To utter lamentations.—Behold, my fervants ftiall ling 
for joy of heart; but ye ftiall cry for forrow of heart, 
and ihall howl for vexation of fpirit. JJaiah, lxv. 14.— 
To fquall, as an infant: 
Thus, in a ftarry night, fond children cry 
For the rich fpangles that adorn the (ky. Waller. 
To weep; to fhed tears : 
Her who ftill weeps with fpungy eyes, 
And her who is dry cork, and never cries. Donne. 
To utter an inarticulate voice, as an animal.'—He giveth 
to the beaft his food, and to the young ravens which cry. 
Pfal/ncxlvn. 9.—The beafts of the field cry alfo unto 
thee. Joel, i. 20.—To yelp, as a hound on a feent: 
He cried upon it at the meereft lofs ; 
Trull me, I take him for the better dog. Shakefpeare. 
To CRY, v. a. To proclaim publicly fomething loft 
or found, in order to its recovery or reftitution : 
She feeks, file fighs, but no where fpies'him : 
Love is loft, and thus fhe cries him. Cra/kaw. 
To CRY down, v. a. To blame; to depreciate ; to de¬ 
cry.—Men of diflolute lives cry down religion, becaufe 
they would not be under the reftraints of it. TillotJon. — 
To prohibit.—By all means cry down that unworthy 
courle of late times, that they Ihould pay money. Bacon, 
—To overbear: 
CRY 
I’ll to the king, 
And from a mouth of honour quite cry down 
This Ipfwich fellow’s infolence. Shakefpeare. 
To CRY out, v. n. To exclaim ; to feream ; to cla¬ 
mour.—They make the opprefted to cry ; they cry out 
by reafon of the arm of the mighty. Job. —With that 
Sufannah cried with a loud voice, and the two elders 
cried out again!! her. Suf. xxiv.—To complain loudly.— 
We are ready to cry out of an unequal management, and 
to blame the divine adminiftration. Atterbury. —To 
blame ; to cenfure : with of, againji, upon. —Behold, I 
cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. Job, xix. 7.—Tu¬ 
mult, fedition, and rebellion, are things that the fol¬ 
lowers of that hypothefis cry out againji. Locke. 
Cry out upon the ftars for doing 
Til offices, to crofs their wooing. Hudibras. 
To declare loud ; to be in labour : 
What ! is (he crying out? - 
-So faid her woman ; and that her fuff’ranee made 
Each pang a death. Shakefpeare. 
To CRY ur ,v.a. To applaud ; to exalt; to praife—. 
Inftead of crying up all things which are brought from 
beyond fca, let us advance the native commodities of 
our own kingdom. Bacon. 
Poets, like monarchs on an eaftern throne, 
Confin'd by nothing but their will alone, 
Here can cry up, and there as boldly blame, 
And, as they pleafe, give infamy or fame. Walfh. 
To raife the price by proclamation.—All the effedt that 
I conceive was made by crying up the pieces of eight, 
was to bring in much more of that fpecies, inftead of 
others current here. Temple. 
CRY, f [of, Fr. ] Lamentation; fhriek ; feream.—• 
And all the firft-born in the land of Egypt ftiall die, and 
there ftiall be a great cry throughout all the land. Exodus. 
Weeping; mourning; clamour; outcry: 
Amazement feizes all ; the general cry 
Proclaims Laocoon juftly doom’d to die. Dryden. 
Exclamation of triumph or wonder, or any other paflion. 
—In popifii countries Lome impoftor cries out, a miracle ! 
a miracle! to confirm the deluded vulgar in their er¬ 
rors ; and fo the cry goes round, without examining into 
the cheat. Swift .—Proclamation; the hawkers’procla¬ 
mation of wares to be fold in the ftreet: as, the cries of 
London. Acclamation; popular favour : 
The cry went once for thee, 
And ftill it might, and yet it may again. Shakefpeare. 
Voice ; utterance ; manner of vocal expreflion.—Sounds 
alfo, belides the diftindt cries of birds and beafts, are mo¬ 
dified by diverfity of notes of different length, put toge¬ 
ther, which make that complex idea called tune. Locke. 
—Importunate call.—Pray not thou for this people, nei¬ 
ther lift up cry nor prayer for them. Jer. vii. 13.—Yelp- 
ing of dogs: 
He fcorns the dog, refolves to try 
The combat next; but, if their cry 
Invades again his trembling ear, 
He ftrait refumes his wonted care. Waller. 
Yell; inarticulate noife.—There ftiall be the noife of a 
cry from the fiftigate, and an howling from the fecond, 
and a great craftiing from the hills, Ztph. i. 10.—A pack 
of dogs: 
About her middle round, 
A cry of hell-hounds never cealing bark’d. Milton. 
CRY'AL, f The heron. Bailey. 
CRY'ER. See Crier. 
CRYMO'DES,/ among phyficians, a kind of fever 
attended witii a Ihivering cold, and inflammation of the 
internal parts of the body. 
CRYP'SIS, f. [from a hiding or concealing; 
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