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verb 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." "The man... ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!" 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." 4.Hence, To publish the banns of, as for marriage. "I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath." 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." To cry out, to proclaim; to shout. "Your gesture cries it out." 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.
Cry v. i. (past & past part. cried; pres. part. crying) 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." "Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice." "Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee." "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord." "Some cried after him to return." 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." "I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman." 3.To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. "The young ravens which cry." "In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry." To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. "No longer on Saint Denis will we cry." 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 To cry out upon, to denounce; to censure. "Cries out upon abuses." 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?"
adjective Crying adj. Calling for notice; compelling attention; notorious; heinous; as, a crying evil. "Too much fondness for meditative retirement is not the crying sin of our modern Christianity."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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