Part 2639

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>A <b>cry</b> more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.</def>

<blockquote>Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a <b>cry</b> of players? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>The cracklling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.</def>

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

<h1>Cryal</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Cry"al</hw> <tt>(kr?"<it>a</it>l)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. W. <ets>creyr</ets>, <ets>cryr</ets>, <ets>crychydd</ets>. Cf. <er>Cruer</er> a hawk.]</ety> <def>The heron</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Ainsworth.</i>

<h1>Cryer</h1> <Xpage=352>

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

<h1>Crying</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Cry"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; <as>as, a <ex>crying</ex> evil</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the <b>crying</b> sin of our modern Christianity. <i>I. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cryohydrate</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Cry`o*hy"drate</hw> <tt>(kr?`?-h?"dr?t)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/ cold + E. <ets>hydrate</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water.</def>

<i> F. Guthrie.</i>

<h1>Cryolite</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Cry"o*lite</hw> <tt>(kr?"?-l?t)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ icy cold, frost + <ets>-lite</ets>: cf. F. <ets>cryolithe</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.</def>

<h1>Cryophorus</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Cry*oph"o*rus</hw> <tt>(kr?-?f"?-r?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/<?/<?/ icy cold, frost + <?/<?/<?/ to bear.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consist 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&deg; Fahr.</def>

<h1>Crypt</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Crypt</hw> <tt>(kr?pt)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>crypta</ets> vault, crypt, Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/, fr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ to hide. See <er>Crot</er>, <er>Crotto</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and <b>crypts</b> the few fossils of antique learning. <i>Motley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>My knees are bowed in <b>crypt</b> and shrine. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; <as>as, the <ex>cryps</ex> of Lieberk<?/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines</as>.</def>

<h1>Cryptal</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Crypt"al</hw> <tt>(-<it>a</it>l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Of or pertaining to crypts.</def>