Cry - CRY, v.i. pret. and pp. cried. It ought to be cryed.
1. To utter a loud voice; to speak, call or exclaim with vehemence; in a very general sense.
2. To call importunately; to utter a loud voice, by way of earnest request of prayer.
The people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Gen 41.
The people cried to Moses, and he prayed. Num 11.
3. To utter a loud voice in weeping; to utter the voice of sorrow; to lament.
But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. Isa 65.
Esau cried with a great and bitter cry. Gen 27.
Also, to weep or shed tears in silence; a popular use of the word.
4. To utter a loud sound in distress; as, Heshbon shall cry. Isa 15.
He giveth food to the young raves which cry. Psa 147.
5. To exclaim; to utter a loud voice; with out.
And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out. Luke 9.
6. To proclaim; to utter a loud voice, in giving public notice.
Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem. Jer 2.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Isa 40.
7. To bawl; to squall; as a child.
8. To yelp, as a dog. It may be used for the uttering of a loud voice by other animals.
To cry against, to exclaim, or utter a loud voice, by way of reproof, threatening or censure.
Arise, go to Nineveh, and cry against it. Jonah 1.
To cry out, to exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. 2. To complain loudly.
To cry out against, to complain loudly, with a view to censure; to blame; to utter censure.
To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.
CRY, v.t.
1. To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly for giving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost a child.
To cry down,
1. To decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn.
Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it.
2. To overbear.
Cry down this fellows insolence.
To cry up,
1. To praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a mans talents or patriotism, or a womans beauty; to cry up the administration.
2. To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. [Not in use.]
To cry off, in the vulgar dialect, is to publish intentions of marriage.
CRY, n. plu. cries.
1. In a general sense, a loud sound uttered by the mouth of an animal; applicable to the voice of man or beast, and articulate or inarticulate.
2. A loud or vehement sound, uttered in weeping, or lamentation; it may be a shriek or scream.
And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt. Exo 11.
3. Clamor; outcry; as, war, war, is the public cry.
And there arose a great cry. Acts 23.
4. Exclamations of triumph, or wonder, or of other passion.
5. Proclamation; public notice.
At midnight there was a cry made. Mat 25.
6. The notices of hawkers of wares to be sold int he street are called cries; as the cries of London.
7. Acclamation; expression of popular favor.
The cry went once for thee.
8. A loud voice in distress, prayer or request; importunate call.
He forgetteth no the cry of the humble. Psa 9.
There was a great cry in Egypt. Exo 12.
9. Public reports or complaints; noise; fame.
Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great--I will go down, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it. Gen 18.
10. Bitter complaints of oppression and injustice.
He looked for righteousness, and behold a cry. Isa 5.
11. The sound or voice of irrational animals; expression of joy, fright, alarm, or want; as the cries of fowls, the yell or yelping of dogs, &c.
1. A pack of dogs.
Cunning - CUNNING, a. [G. See Can.]
1. Knowing; skillful; experienced; well-instructed. It is applied to all kinds of knowledge, but generally and appropriately, to the skill and dexterity of artificers, or the knowledge acquired by experience.
Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen 23.
I will take away the cunning artificer. Isa 3.
A cunning workman. Exo 38.
2. Wrought with skill; curious; ingenious.
With cherubs of cunning work shalt thou make them. Exo 26.
[The foregoing senses occur frequently in our version of the scriptures, but are nearly or quite obsolete.]
3. Artful; shrewd; sly; crafty; astute; designing; as a cunning fellow.
They are resolved to be cunning; let others run the hazard of being sincere.
In this sense, the purpose or final end of the person may not be illaudalbe; but cunning implies the use of artifice to accomplish the purpose, rather than open, candid, or direct means. Hence,
4. Deceitful; trickish; employing stratagems for a bad purpose.
5. Assumed with subtilty; artful.
Accounting his integrity to be but a cunning face of falsehood.
CUNNING, n.
1. Knowledge; art; skill; dexterity.
Let my right hand forget her cunning. Psa 137.
2. Art; artifice; artfulness; craft; shrewdness; the faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose. Hence in a bad sense, deceitfulness or deceit; fraudulent skill or dexterity.
Discourage cunning in a child; cunning is the ape of wisdom.
Cup - CUP, n. [L., a little cup.]
1. A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of. It is usually made of metal; as a silver cup; a tin cup. But the name is also given to vessels of like shape used for other purposes. It is usually more deep than wide; but tea-cups and coffee-cups are often exceptions.
2. The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup, or that it may contain; as a cup of beer. See 1 Cor 11.
3. In a scriptural sense, sufferings and afflictions; that which is to be received or endured.
O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Mat 26.
4. Good received; blessings and favors.
My cup runneth over. Psa 23.
Take the cup of salvation, that is, receive the blessings of deliverance and redemption with joy and thanksgiving.
5. Any thing hollow like a cup; as the cup of an acorn. The bell of a flower, and a calyx is called a flower-cup.
6. A glass cup or vessel used for drawing blood in scarification.
Cup and can, familiar companions; the can being the large vessel out of which the cup is filled, and thus the two being constantly associated.
Cups, in the plural, social entertainment in drinking; merry bout.
Thence from cups to civil broils.
CUP, v.i.
1. In surgery, to apply a cupping-glass to procure a discharge of blood from a scarified part of the body.
2. To supply with cups.
Cure - CURE, n. [L., to cure, to take care, to prepare.]
1. A healing; the act of healing; restoration to health from disease, and to soundness from a wound. We say, a medicine will effect a cure.
2. Remedy for disease; restorative; that which heals.
Colds, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
3. The employment of a curate; the care of souls; spiritual charge.
CURE, v.t. [L. See the Noun.]
1. To heal, as a person diseased or a wounded limb; to restore to health, as the body, or to soundness, as a limb.
The child was cured from that very hour. Mat 17.
2. To subdue, remove, destroy or put an end to; to heal, as a disease.
Christ gave his disciples power to cure diseases. Luke 9.
When the person and the disease are both mentioned, cure is followed by of before the disease. The physician cured the man of his fever.
3. To remedy; to remove an evil, and restore to a good state.
Patience will alleviate calamities, which cannot cure.
4. To dry; to prepare for preservation; as, to cure hay; or to prepare by salt, or in any manner, so as to prevent speedy putrefaction; as, to cure fish or beef.
Curse - CURSE, v.t. pret. and pp. cursed or curst.
1. To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.
Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people. Exo 22.
Bless and curse not. Rom 12.
Curse me this people, for they are too mighty for me. Num 22.
2. To injure; to subject to evil; to vex, harass or torment with great calamities.
On impious realms and barbarous kings impose thy plagues, and curse em with such sons as those.
3. To devote to evil.
CURSE, v.i. To utter imprecations; to affirm or deny with imprecations of divine vengeance.
Then began he to curse and to swear. Mat 26.
CURSE, n.
1. Malediction; the expression of a wish of evil to another.
Shimei--who cured me with a grievous curse. 1 Ki 2.
2. Imprecation of evil.
They entered into a curse, and into an oath. Neh 10.
3. Affliction; torment; great vexation.
I will make this city a curse to all nations. Jer 26.
4. Condemnation; sentence of divine vengeance on sinners.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. Gal 3.
5. Denunciation of evil.
The priest shall write all these curses in a book. Num 5.