1. Verb
To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
2. Verb
To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
3. Verb
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
4. Verb
To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
5. Verb
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
6. Verb
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.
7. Verb
to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
8. Verb
A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
9. Verb
Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
10. Verb
Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
11. Verb
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
12. Verb
Importunate supplication.
13. Verb
Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
14. Verb
Common report; fame.
15. Verb
A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
16. Verb
A pack of hounds.
17. Verb
A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
18. Verb
The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
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