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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.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

l rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

The act of crying out. Sir T. Browne.

le. This is a happier and more comely time Than when these fellows ran about the streets, Crying confusion. Shak. It is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely. Ps. cxlvii. 1.

the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. Matt. xxvii. 46. Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. Shak. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. Ps. xxviii. 2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Is. xl. 3. Some cried after him to return. Bunya…

A crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.

A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc. Exclamations against abuses in the church. Hooker. Thus will I d…

h heat. Dr. Prior. -- Jumping hare. (Zoöl.) See under Jumping. -- Little chief hare, or Crying hare. (Zoöl.) See Chief hare. -- Sea hare. (Zoöl.) See Aplysia.

One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.

st Indies; the other (A. scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, and crying bird.

The crying of a cat.

turb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer.

bbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.

A crying for help. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven. "This recreant knight." Spenser.