cry

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: 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.— William Shakespeare

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.— John 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.— William Shakespeare

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.— William Shakespeare

To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. “No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.” William Shakespeare — 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.” William Shakespeare — 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?” William Shakespeare

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.— William Shakespeare

The man... ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!— John 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, etc.; as, to cry goods, etc.

Love is lost, and thus she cries him.— Richard Crashaw

4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.— Sylvester 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.— John Tilllotson

— To cry out, to proclaim; to shout. “Your gesture cries it out.” William Shakespeare — 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.

Origin: F. cri, fr. crier to cry. See Cry, intransitive verb

1. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves. John Milton

2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever.— Thomas Babington 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.— Alfred Tennyson

4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. Jonathan Swift

The cry went once on thee.— William Shakespeare

5. Importunate supplication.

O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls.— William Shakespeare

6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

The street cries of London.— Henry Mayhew

7. Common report; fame.

The cry goes that you shall marry her.— William Shakespeare

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.— Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

9. A pack of hounds. John Milton

A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.— William Shakespeare

10. A pack or company of persons; — in contempt.

Would not this... get me a fellowship in a cry of players?— William Shakespeare

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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54