a. 1. A paint in which the pigment is suspended in a solution of an acrylic resin, which dries to a hard film on exposure to air. [ PJC ]

2. A painting made using an acrylic paint; as, he donated several of his acrylics to the museum. [ PJC ]

3. Same as acrylic resin. [ PJC ]

4. Same as acrylic fiber. [ PJC ]

a. 1. (Chem.) Of or containing acryl, the hypothetical radical (R.CH:CH.CO-) of which acrolein (H2C:CH.CHO) is the hydride; as, acrylic acid. The characteristic residue in an acrylic compound is the carbonyl group attached directly to an ethylenic carbon. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. Of or pertaining to a derivative of acrylic acid, or an object consisting mostly of an acrylic resin; as, an acrylic window. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Chem.) a thermoplastic made by polymerization of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid or some derivative of these (such as the esters or amides). It can be formed into a clear hard plastic, and is the basis for the commercial plastics called Lucite and Plexiglass. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a colorless liquid compound (H2C:CH.CN); used as raw material for acrylic fibers, and as a solvent.
Syn. -- vinyl cyanide, cyanoethylene, 2-propenenitrile [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. pl., but often used as sing. with pl. Apocryphas [ L. apocryphus apocryphal, Gr. &unr_; hidden, spurious, fr. &unr_; to hide; &unr_; from + &unr_; to hide. ] 1. Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; -- formerly used also adjectively. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specif.: Certain writings which are received by some Christians as an authentic part of the Holy Scriptures, but are rejected by others. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Fourteen such writings, or books, formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews of Palestine. The Council of Trent included all but three of these in the canon of inspired books having equal authority. The German and English Reformers grouped them in their Bibles under the title Apocrypha, as not having dogmatic authority, but being profitable for instruction. The Apocrypha is now commonly &unr_;mitted from the King James's Bible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the Apocrypha. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. [ 1913 Webster ]

The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in, or defends, the Apocrypha. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an apocryphal manner; mythically; not indisputably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being apocryphal; doubtfulness of credit or genuineness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The power of exciting mirth; comicalness. [ R. ] H. Giles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cried p. pr. & vb. n. Crying. ] [ F. crier, cf. L. quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr. queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf. Quarrel a brawl, Querulous. ] 1. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. [ 1913 Webster ]

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. Matt. xxvii. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]

Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. Ps. xxviii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Is. xl. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some cried after him to return. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. Is. lxv. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

The young ravens which cry. Ps. cxlvii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a cowslip's bell I lie
There I couch when owls do cry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cry on or
To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. “No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.” Shak. --
To cry out. (a) To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. (b) To complain loudly; to lament. --
To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame. --
To cry out on or
To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. “Cries out upon abuses.” Shak. --
To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore. --
To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. “I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n.; pl. Cries [ F. cri, fr. crier to cry. See Cry, v. i. ] 1. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. Ex. xi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cry went once on thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Importunate supplication. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. [ 1913 Webster ]

The street cries of London. Mayhew. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Common report; fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cry goes that you shall marry her. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. [ 1913 Webster ]

All now depends upon a good cry. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A pack of hounds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cry more tunable
Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. W. creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. Cruer a hawk. ] The heron [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, fr. crye crane, fr. L. crus crane. Cf. Cryal. ] The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kry`os cold + E. hydrate. ] (Chem.) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite: cf. F. cryolithe. ] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cold, frost + -meter. ] (Physics) A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene.
Syn. -- frostbite. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a morbid fear of freezing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + fe`rein to bear. ] (Chem.) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32° Fahr. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto. ] 1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to crypts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the science which studies methods to discovering the secret meaning of encrypted messages for which one does not possess the secret decoding information (called the key). [ PJC ]

2. the methods and procedures used to discover the secret meaning hidden in encrypted messages. [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ L. crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to hide. ] Hidden; secret; occult. “Her [ nature's ] more cryptic ways of working.” Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. incomprehensible to those not familiar with the culture or jargon; as, the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms.
Syn. -- inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols engraved in stone; cryptic writings.
Syn. -- cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection. [ PJC ]

5. written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.
Syn. -- encoded, enciphered, encrypted. [ PJC ]

adv. Secretly; occultly; in a manner so as to hide or obscure meaning. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. krypto`s hidden. ] (Chem.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden + L. branchia a gill. ] (Zool.) (a) A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. (b) A group of nudibranch mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having concealed or rudimentary gills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus of cockroaches.
Syn. -- genus Cryptocercus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia.
Syn. -- water trumpet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. krypto`s hidden + E. crystalline. ] (Geol.) Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cryptogame. See Cryptogamia. ] (Bot.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Cryptogamiæ [ NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage. ] (Bot.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The subdivisions have been variously arranged. The following arrangement recognizes four classes: -- I. Pteridophyta, or Vascular Acrogens. These include Ferns, Equiseta or Scouring rushes, Lycopodiaceæ or Club mosses, Selaginelleæ, and several other smaller orders. Here belonged also the extinct coal plants called Lepidodendron, Sigillaria, and Calamites. II. Bryophita, or Cellular Acrogens. These include Musci, or Mosses, Hepaticæ, or Scale mosses and Liverworts, and possibly Characeæ, the Stoneworts. III. Algæ, which are divided into Florideæ, the Red Seaweeds, and the orders Dictyoteæ, Oosporeæ, Zoosporeæ, Conjugatæ, Diatomaceæ, and Cryptophyceæ. IV. Fungi. The molds, mildews, mushrooms, puffballs, etc., which are variously grouped into several subclasses and many orders. The Lichenes or Lichens are now considered to be of a mixed nature, each plant partly a Fungus and partly an Alga. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in cryptogamic botany. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a genus sometimes placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Cryptogrammataceae.
Syn. -- genus Cryptogramma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems.
Syn. -- family Cryptogrammataceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. krypto`s hidden + -graph: cf. F. cryptographe. ] Cipher; something written in cipher. “Decipherers of cryptograph.” J. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who writes in cipher, or secret characters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who studies methods for encoding and decoding messages; one who studies cryptography. [ PJC ]

{ } a. Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cryptographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cryptographie. ] 1. The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. The science which studies methods for encoding messages so that they can be read only by a person who knows the secret information required for decoding, called the key; it includes cryptanalysis, the science of decoding encrypted messages without possessing the proper key, and has several other branches; see for example steganography. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. krypto`s hidden + -logy. ] Secret or enigmatical language. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; secret + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; name. ] A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated. [ 1913 Webster ]