Definition of cry

• v. i. - To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
• v. i. - To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
• v. i. - To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
• v. t. - To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
• v. t. - To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
• v. i. - A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
• v. i. - Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
• v. i. - Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
• v. i. - Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
• v. i. - Importunate supplication.
• v. i. - Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
• v. i. - Common report; fame.
• v. i. - A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
• v. i. - A pack of hounds.
• v. i. - A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
• v. i. - The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.