[-ING2.] That cries.
1. Exclaiming, shouting, clamorous; roaring.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIII. xxiii. (1495), 455. A cryenge see and an vnpeasyble is peryllous.
1483. Cath. Angl., 82. Criynge, clamans.
1604. Shaks., Oth., II. iii. 230. My selfe the crying Fellow did pursue.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 495. When crying Cormorants forsake the Sea.
2. Wailing, weeping.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 814. And fright her crying babe with Tarquin’s name.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 380. Annoyed by invalids and crying children.
3. Of evils: That forces itself upon notice, and calls loudly for redress; clamant, notorious.
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1608), 736. Odious crying sins.
1640. Petit., in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1692), III. I. 21. Representing Ship-Money as a Great and Crying Grievance.
1660. Gauden, God’s Great Demonstr., 52. The cryingest injustice and cruelty in the world.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 61, ¶ 5. There is a most crying Dulness on both Sides.
1838. Prescott, Ferd. & Is. (1846), I. iii. 155. The most crying evil of this period.
1890. F. W. Robinson, Very Strange Family, xi. 95. It would be a crying shame, if you could.
advb. 1836–9. Dickens, Sk. Boz (1877), 126. These two old men … have made themselves crying drunk.
