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What's The Definition Of 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. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46. Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice. --Shak. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps. xxviii. 2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord. --Is. xl. 3. Some cried after him to return. --Bunyan. 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. Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. --Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. --Shak. 3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. --Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. --Shak. {To cry on} or {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 {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.
\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.
\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. 2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. --Macaulay. 3. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. --Ex. xi. 6. An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry. --Tennyson. 4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. --Swift. The cry went once on thee. --Shak. 5. Importunate supplication. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. --Shak. 6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. The street cries of London. --Mayhew. 7. Common report; fame. The cry goes that you shall marry her. --Shak. 8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. All now depends upon a good cry. --Beaconsfield. 9. A pack of hounds. --Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. --Shak. 10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? --Shak. 11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. {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.