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8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.

All now depends upon a good cry. Beaconsfield.

9. A pack of hounds. Milton.

A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak.

10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.

Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? Shak.

11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.

Cry"al (kr?"al), n. [Cf. W. creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. Cruer a hawk.] The heron [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Cry"er (-?r), n. [F. faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, fr. crye crane, fr. L. crus crane. Cf. Cryal.] The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

Cry"ing, a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil.

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor.

Cry`o*hy"drate (kr?`?-h?"dr?t), n. [Gr. kry`os cold + E. hydrate.] (Chem.) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie.

Cry"o*lite (krī"?-l?t), n. [Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite: cf. F. cryolithe.] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

Cry*oph"o*rus (kr&isl;*&obreve;f"&osl;*rŭs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + fe`rein to bear.] (Chem.) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32░ Fahr.

Crypt (kr&ibreve;pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto.] 1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley.

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of LieberkŘhn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

Crypt"al (-al), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts.

{ Cryp"tic (kr&ibreve;p"t&ibreve;k), Cryp"tic*al (-t?-kal), } a. [L. crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to hide.] Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

Cryp"tic*al*ly, adv. Secretly; occultly.

Cryp"ti*dine (kr?p"t?-d?n; 104), n. [Gr. krypto`s hidden.] (Chem.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

||Cryp`to*bran`chi*a"ta (kr?p`t?-bra?`k?- ?"t?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden + L. branchia a gill.] (Zo÷l.) (a) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. (b) A group of nudibranch mollusks.

Cryp`to*bran"chi*ate (-br??"k?-?t), a. (Zo÷l.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Cryp`to*crys"tal*line (-kr?s"tal-l?n), a. [Gr. krypto`s hidden + E. crystalline.] (Geol.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

Cryp"to*gam (kr?p"t?-g?m), n. [Cf. F. cryptogame. See Cryptogamia.] (Bot.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

||Cryp`to*ga"mi*a (kr?p`t?-g?"m?-?), n.; pl. CryptogamiŠ (-&?;). [NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage.] (Bot.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.