What is to cry aim

To cry aim

Aim \Aim\, n. [Cf. OF. esme estimation, fr. esmer. See Aim, v. i.]

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.

Each at the head leveled his deadly aim.
--Milton.
The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.

To be the aim of every dangerous shot.
--Shak.
Intention; purpose; design; scheme.

How oft ambitious aims are crossed!
--Pope.
Conjecture; guess. [Obs.]

What you would work me to, I have some aim.
--Shak.

To cry aim (Archery), to encourage. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Syn: End; object; scope; drift; design; purpose; intention; scheme; tendency; aspiration.

To cry aim

Cry \Cry\, v. t.

To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.

All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak.
--Shak.

The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!
--Bunyan.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
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.

Love is lost, and thus she cries him.
--Crashaw.
Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.
--Judd.

To cry aim. See under Aim.

To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn.

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.

What is "to cry aim"