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▪ I. † scry, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 4–6 scry(e, 5–6 skry(e, 6 scrie, skrie.
[Aphetic form of ascry or escry: cf. scry v. In many places it is impossible to tell whether we should read ascry(e in one word, or a scrye in two: see quotations below.]
1. Crying out, shout, exclamation, clamour.
Quot. a 1450 was misunderstood by Skinner (Etymologicon, 1671), who interpreted ‘scrye of foules’ to mean a flock of wild fowl. The error was repeated by Blount 1674, and appears in many dictionaries.
1419Ordin. War. xii. in Black Bk. Admir. (Rolls) I. 462 For unlawefull scryes..that none escrie the whiche is called mount. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 16 With the which the ladis, and all the wemen, mayd a sorowfull skrye. a1450Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 5 The blastes of hornys and the scrye of foulis. 1470Henry Wallace iv. 671 The scry sone rais, the bald Loran was dede. 1513Douglas æneis viii. xi. 33 Thayr was also engravyt all at rycht The syluer ganer, flyghterand wyth lowd skry. 1553Brende Q. Curtius 41 b, Towardes that parte where the skrye was heard. 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 54 Euerie one to help other to arme and diligentlie to resort to the place of seruice, at scrie or larum vpon paine. 1616Barbour's Bruce xix. 564 The noyis weill soyn raiss and the skry. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 137 Wi' skirl, and skry, and rallion-shout, Stood thick and far the rabble-rout.
2. An attack; a reconnoitre.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xviii. 24 Euery nyght the Englisshe oste made good and sure watche, for they doubted makyng of skryes. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 249 To make a skrye in the Scottes hoste. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 813/1 On a daie the Frenchmen made a skrie toward the English campe.
▪ II. scry, n.2 Obs. exc. dial. (see E.D.D.).|skraɪ|
Also 7 scrie, 9 scree.
[App. related to screen n. 5.]
A kind of sieve.
c1615Boys Wks. (1629) 347 Winnowed corne is..made cleane by the fanne and scrie, for the masters owne vse: so though our enemie sift vs, his scrying is but our trying. Ibid. 428 He must be like the scry, keeping the good seed but casting away the dust and vnprofitable darnell. 1892Auction. Catal. Kent Farm Sale, Manure scry.
▪ III. scry, n.3|skraɪ|
[f. scry v.2]
Something ‘scried’ in a crystal.
1898A. Lang Making of Relig. v. 95 The ‘scries’ which came right were sometimes those of which the ‘agent’, or person scried for, was consciously thinking.
▪ IV. † scry, v.1 Obs.
[Aphetic form of descry v.2]
trans. To describe.
a1400Sir Degrev. 1859, I knewe never mane so wys, That couth telle the servise, Ne scrye the metys of prys Was servyd in that sale. c1440Bone Flor. 333 That men myght mewse on many a yere, Or he hyt scryed wyth stevyn. 1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 69, I neede no scribe to scrie my care, in restlesse rigour spreade.
▪ V. scry, v.2|skraɪ|
Also 6 skrie.
[Aphetic f. descry v.1]
1. trans. To descry, see, perceive. Obs. exc. dial.
1555T. Phaer æneid iii. (1558) G iv, Whom Phebus token trees & starres of heauen, hath taught to skrie. 1570Dee Math. Pref. a iv, Landmarkes from the sea..well hable to be skried. c1595Capt. Wyatt R. Dudley's Voy. W. Ind. (Hakl. Soc.) 57 Our Generall..was the first that scryed a sayle. a1734North Examen i. iii. ⁋43 (1740) 147 The most that any close Inspection can scry out of, it is that a Party was found that would oppose the Exclusion Bill. 1807Stagg Poems 41 Forth frae the bit they scry'd it furst, Agean the demon springs. 1855Whitby Gloss. s.v. Scried, ‘I scried it lang afore I com at it’.
absol.1589R. Robinson Gold. Mirror (Chetham) 8 As I ken'd him farre, as eyes could scry.
2. intr. To see images in pieces of crystal, water, etc. which reveal the future or secrets of the past or present; to act as a crystal-gazer.
Revived in the 19th c as a technical term: cf. scryer.
1528W. Stapleton Confess. (P.R.O.), His said boye did scrye unto him, which said spirytt I had after myself. And for a tryall..he caused his servaunt to goo hyde a certeyn money in the gardeyn, and I shewed for the same and oone Jakeson scryed unto me, but we could not accomplisshe our purpose. 1894A. Lang Cock Lane & Common-sense 223 Thus the conditions under which the scryer can scry, are, as yet unascertained. 1897― Dreams & Ghosts iii. 61 In using the ball she..succeeded in seeing..persons..familiar to people for whom she ‘scried’, but totally strange to herself.
Hence ˈscrying vbl. n., crystal-gazing.
a1608Dee Relat. Spir. ii. (1659) 4, I thereupon appointed with myself to bring the Childe to the place, and to offer him, and present him to the service of Seeing and Skrying from God. 1894A. Lang Cock Lane & Common-Sense 212 The practice of ‘scrying’, ‘peeping’, or ‘crystal-gazing’ has been revived in recent years. 1902F. Podmore Mod. Spiritualism iv. vi. II. 297 The substances commonly used for scrying—crystal, glass, water,..etc.
▪ VI. scry, v.3 Obs. exc. dial. (see E.D.D.).
Also 9 scree.
[f. scry n.2]
trans. To sift (corn, etc.). In quot. fig. Hence ˈscrying vbl. n.
c1615Boys Wks. (1629) 428 He must scry the Sermons of the Prophets and try the spirits, examining all things, and then holding that which is good. Ibid., Scrying [see scry n.2].
▪ VII. scry, v.4 Sc. and north.|skraɪ|
Also 8 skry.
[Aphetic form of ascry, escry, a. OF. escrier to cry out.]
trans. To proclaim (a sale, etc.).
1710Ruddiman Gloss. to Douglas' æneis s.v., To skry a Fair, i.e. to proclaim it. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xi. (1881) 70 If Samie Pikeshule had a roup to scry. |