Part 2638

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; <as>as, to <ex>cry</ex> one's self to sleep</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>cry</ex> goods, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>Love is lost, and thus she <b>cries</b> him. <i>Crashaw.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.</def>

<blockquote>I should not be surprised if they were <b>cried</b> in church next Sabbath. <i>Judd.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To cry aim</col>. <cd>See under <er>Aim</er>.</cd> -- <col>To cry down</col>, <cd>to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn.</cd>

<blockquote>Men of dissolute lives <b>cry down</b> religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

-- <col>To cry out</col>, <cd>to proclaim; to shout."Your gesture <i>cries</i> it <i>out</i>." <i>Shak</i>.</cd> -- <col>To cry quits</col>, <cd>to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest.</cd> -- <col>To cry up</col>, <cd>to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cry</h1> <Xpage=352>

<hw>Cry</hw> <tt>(kr?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Cries</plw> <tt>(kr<?/z)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[F. <ets>cri</ets>, fr. <ets>crier</ets> to cry. See <er>Cry</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; <as>as, the <ex>cry</ex> of hounds; the <i>cry</i> of wolves.</as></def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.</def>

<blockquote>Again that <b>cry</b> was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.</def>

<blockquote>There shall be a great <b>cry</b> throughout all the land. <i>Ex. xi. 6.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a <b>cry</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>cry</b> went once on thee. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Importunate supplication.</def>

<blockquote>O, the most piteous <b>cry</b> of the poor souls. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.</def>

<blockquote>The street <b>cries</b> of London. <i>Mayhew.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Common report; fame.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>cry</b> goes that you shall marry her. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; <as>as, the party <ex>cry</ex> of the Tories</as>.</def>

<blockquote>All now depends upon a good <b>cry</b>. <i>Beaconsfield.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A pack of hounds.</def>