Crier

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Crier \Cri"er\ (kr?"?r), n. [Cf. F. crieur. See {Cry}.]
     One who cries; one who makes proclamation. Specifically, an
     officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or
     who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a
     town-crier.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           He openeth his mouth like a crier.       --Ecclus. xx.
                                                    15.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  crier
       n 1: a person who weeps [syn: {weeper}]
       2: (formerly) an official who made public announcements [syn: {town
          crier}]
       3: a peddler who shouts to advertises the goods he sells

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CRIER. An inferior officer of a court, whose duty it is to open and adjourn 
  the court, when ordered by the judges; to make proclamations and obey the 
  directions of the court in anything which concerns the administration of 
  justice.