cryingn.
1. The action of cry v. in its various senses; shouting, lamentation, weeping, etc.
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter iii. 4 His prayere he calles criynge.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xii. vi. 416 Cryenge of the owle by nyght.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clxxix Thy cryeng (fole) shall nat wake hym of that slepe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10180 The clamor was kene, crying of pepull.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. iv. 14 Eli heard the noise of the crying . View more context for this quotation
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 29 My crying was over.
1891 F. Barrett Sin Olga Zassoulich 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 (obsolete); crying up, extolling, laudation, etc.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun]
childbeda1200
bend1297
gesinea1400
lying-inc1440
labour1472
down-lying1561
groaning1579
groaning-time1579
partion1656
crying out1692
accouchement1730
inlying1734
confinement1774
accubation1853
1483 Cath. Angl. 82 A Criynge owte, exclamacio.
1676 W. Allen Serious & Friendly Addr. Non-conformists 158 A zealous crying up one, and crying down another.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 417 He has ordered all the English nobility and gentry to be present at her crying out.
1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 479 Couriers were dispatch'd..to desire them to come to Her Majesty's Crying-out.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xlvii. 294 Aunt Nell..was at the Crying-out.
Compounds
crying cold n. a cold that makes the eyes run.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > common cold or catarrh
poseOE
rheuma1398
cold?a1425
snekec1440
refraidourc1450
murr1451
gravedity1547
coldment1578
snorea1585
catarrh1588
coqueluche1611
gravediny1620
coryza1634
snurl1674
catch-cold1706
gravedo1706
common cold1713
coolth?1748
snuffles1770
snifters1808
influenza cold1811
snaffles1822
the sniffles1825
snuffiness1834
crying cold1843
flu1899
1843 T. Watson Lect. Physic II. xlix. 50 I found her suffering under what is popularly called a ‘crying cold’.
crying tithe n. a tithe of young livestock.
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cryingadj.
That cries.advb.1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 284 Those two old men..have made themselves crying drunk.
1. Exclaiming, shouting, clamorous; roaring.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [adjective]
crying1398
roaringc1425
whurling1495
reirding1591
routinga1609
bellowing1619
bombardical1645
rummishing1653
polyphloisboian1824
polyphloisboiotic1843
polyphloisboiic1863
polyphloisbic1915
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > outcry or clamour
crying1398
clamorous1526
wrangling1551
blatant1656
obstropolous1748
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxiii. 455 A cryenge see and an vnpeasyble is peryllous.
1483 Cath. Angl. 82 Criynge, clamans.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 223 My selfe the crying fellow did pursue. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 64 When crying Cormorants forsake the Sea. View more context for this quotation
2. Wailing, weeping.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective]
weepingc900
wopi?c1225
greetingfula1340
greetyc1350
weeplyc1374
weepfula1382
weepinglyc1440
lachrymablec1450
moistc1450
lachrymous1490
rainy1563
tearfula1586
greeting1588
collachrymate1593
crying1594
onion-eyeda1616
maudlinc1616
rheumatica1627
fluxed1628
lachrymalc1630
crystal-droppinga1650
showery1654
lugent1656
Niobean1665
lachrymary1693
lachrymose1727
moist-eyed1797
larmoyant1824
pluviose1824
ploratory1831
lachrymating1837
screwmatic1847
pipy1861
weepy1863
blarting1898
leaky1905
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F4v And fright her crying babe with Tarqvins name. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay 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.
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [adjective] > urgent
urgent1496
thronga1525
crying1608
pressing1609
rash1609
pressive1619
urging1647
immergent1655
emergent1706
acute1846
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 202 Odious crying sinnes.
1640 Petit. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 21 Representing Ship-Money as a Great and Crying Grievance.
1660 J. Gauden Μεγαλεια Θεου 52 The cryingest injustice and cruelty in the world.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 61. ¶5 There is a most crying Dulness on both sides.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. iii. 69 The most crying evil of this period.
1890 F. W. Robinson Very Strange Family xi. 95 It would be a crying shame, if you could.
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