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 Aim, n.
 1. 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.
 2. The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
    To be the aim of every dangerous shot.   --Shak.
 3. Intention; purpose; design; scheme.
    How oft ambitious aims are crossed!   --Pope.
 4. Conjecture; guess. [Obs.]
    What you would work me to, I have some aim.   --Shak.
 To cry aim Archery, to encourage. [Obs.]
 Syn: -- End; object; scope; drift; design; purpose; intention; scheme; tendency; aspiration.
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 Cry, v. t.
 1. 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.
 2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
 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.
    Love is lost, and thus she cries him.   --Crashaw.
 4. 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.