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 cracklling 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.
CRYAL Cry"al (kr"al), n. Etym: [Cf. W. creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. Cruer a hawk.]
Defn: The heron [Obs.] Ainsworth.
CRYER Cry"er (-r), n. Etym: [F. faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, fr. crye crane, fr. L. crus crane. Cf. Cryal.]