Found 1 items, similar to To cry aim.
English → English (gcide) Definition: To cry aim 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. [1913 Webster] Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected. [1913 Webster] To be the aim of every dangerous shot. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Intention; purpose; design; scheme. [1913 Webster] How oft ambitious aims are crossed! --Pope. [1913 Webster] 4. Conjecture; guess. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] What you would work me to, I have some aim. --Shak. [1913 Webster] To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: End; object; scope; drift; design; purpose; intention; scheme; tendency; aspiration. [1913 Webster] Cry \Cry\, v. t. 1. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. [1913 Webster] All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life! --Bunyan. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Love is lost, and thus she cries him. --Crashaw. [1913 Webster] 4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. [1913 Webster] I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. --Judd. [1913 Webster] To cry aim. See under Aim. To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]