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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cry \Cry\ (kr[imac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cried (kr[imac]d); 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] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cry \Cry\ (kr?), n.; pl. Cries (kr?z). [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] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cry \Cry\, v. t.
1. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad;
to declare publicly.
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All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak.
--Shak.
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The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal
life! --Bunyan.
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2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by
crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
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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.
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Love is lost, and thus she cries him. --Crashaw.
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4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
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I should not be surprised if they were cried in
church next Sabbath. --Judd.
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To cry aim. See under Aim.
To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to
condemn.
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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.
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