'To cry up' definitions:
Definition of 'To cry up'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Words containing 'To cry up'
- Cried,
- Cries,
- Cry,
- Crying,
- To cry down,
- To cry on,
- To cry out,
- To cry out against,
- To cry out on,
- To cry to,
- cri,
- cry for,
- cry out,
- cry out for,
- A far cry,
- Crying hare,
- Full cry,
- Hue and cry,
- Tin cry,
- To cry aim,
- To cry cupboard,
- To cry halves,
- To cry out upon,
- To cry quits,
- To cry upon,
- To cry you mercy,
- War cry,
- battle cry,
- cry havoc,
- crying bird,
- far cry,
- rallying cry,
- cry-baby tree