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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)