CRY

vi a pack of hounds.

2. cry ·vi common report; fame.

3. cry ·vi importunate supplication.

4. cry ·vi outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

5. cry ·vt to publish the banns of, as for marriage.

6. cry ·vi to utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.

7. cry ·vi a pack or company of persons;

— in contempt.

8. cry ·vi the crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

9. cry ·vi loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.

10. cry ·vi public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

11. cry ·vt to utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.

12. cry ·vt to cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

13. cry ·vi a word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the tories.

14. cry ·vi any expression of grief, distress, ·etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.

15. cry ·vi a loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.

xvi. cry ·vi to utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.

xvii. cry ·vt 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.

xviii. cry ·vi to make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.