Found 2 hits - Term: to cry aim, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aim \aim\, n. cf. of. esme estimation, fr. esmer. see aim, v.
i.
1. the pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow,
in the line of direction with the object intended to be
struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, as a
spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular
point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
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each at the head leveled his deadly aim. --milton.
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2. the point intended to be hit, or object intended to be
attained or affected.
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to be the aim of every dangerous shot. --shak.
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3. intention; purpose; design; scheme.
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how oft ambitious aims are crossed --pope.
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4. conjecture; guess. obs.
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what you would work me to, i have some aim. --shak.
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to cry aim archery, to encourage. obs. --shak.
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syn: end; object; scope; drift; design; purpose; intention;
scheme; tendency; aspiration.
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see also:
aim to cry aim
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cry \cry\, v. t.
1. to utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad;
to declare publicly.
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all, all, cry shame against ye, yet i 'll speak.
--shak.
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the man . . . ran on,crying, life life eternal
life --bunyan.
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2. to cause to do something, or bring to some state, by
crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
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3. to make oral and public proclamation of; to declare
publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially
things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry
goods, etc.
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love is lost, and thus she cries him. --crashaw.
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4. hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
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i should not be surprised if they were cried in
church next sabbath. --judd.
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to cry aim. see under aim.
to cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to
condemn.
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men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because
they would not be under the restraints of it.
--tillotson.
to cry out, to proclaim; to shout. "your gesture cries it
out." --shak.
to cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a
contest.
to cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public
and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.
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see also:
to cry aim aim to cry down to cry out to cry quits to cry up
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