CRY
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
Cry (kr), n.; pl. Cries (kr. Etym: [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.