cry

n.; pl. Cries [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall be a great cry throughout all the land. Ex. xi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

An infant crying in the night,
An infant crying for the light;
And with no language but a cry. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cry went once on thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Importunate supplication. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. [ 1913 Webster ]

The street cries of London. Mayhew. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Common report; fame. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cry goes that you shall marry her. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. [ 1913 Webster ]

All now depends upon a good cry. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A pack of hounds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cry more tunable
Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry of players? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. [ 1913 Webster ]

All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man . . . ran on, crying, Life! life! Eternal life! Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love is lost, and thus she cries him. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. Judd. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cry aim. See under Aim. --
To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. W. creyr, cryr, crychydd. Cf. Cruer a hawk. ] The heron [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, fr. crye crane, fr. L. crus crane. Cf. Cryal. ] The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kry`os cold + E. hydrate. ] (Chem.) A substance, as salt, ammonium chloride, etc., which crystallizes with water of crystallization only at low temperatures, or below the freezing point of water. F. Guthrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kry`os icy cold, frost + -lite: cf. F. cryolithe. ] (Min.) A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cold, frost + -meter. ] (Physics) A thermometer for the measurement of low temperatures, esp. such an instrument containing alcohol or some other liquid of a lower freezing point than mercury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]