cry

verb

1. (intransitive)To shed tears; to weep, especially in anger or sadness.

   “That sad movie always makes me cry.”

   “- Emerl: “There’s nothing worse than making a girl cry!” That’s what Sonic said...”

2. (transitive)To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.

   “All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I'll speak.”

   “[T]he Man put his fingers in his Ears, and ran on crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life: [...]”

3. (ambitransitive)To shout, scream, yell.

   “And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.”

4. (figuratively, intransitive)To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.

   “My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue.”

5. (intransitive)To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.

   “the young ravens which cry”

   “In a cowslip's bell I lie / There I couch when owls do cry.”

6. (transitive)To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.

   “Tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep.”

7. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.

   “to cry goods”

   “Love is lost, and thus she cries him.”

   ““We're in luck. Loren Passerine, the finest auctioneer in the West, will be crying today.” “Will be what?” “We say an auctioneer ‘cries’ a sale,” Cohen said.”

   “Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town / (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!) / For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who / Would make for him the Antelope's crew.”

8. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.

   “I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.”

noun

1. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.

   “After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.”

2. A shout or scream.

   “I heard a cry from afar.”

3. Words shouted or screamed.

   “a battle cry”

4. A clamour or outcry.

   “His pupil, Maimonides, that he might not be under the necessity of violating the laws of friendship and gratitude, by joining the general cry against Averroes, left Corduba.”

5. (collective)A group of hounds.

   “A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.”

6. (broadly, derogatory, obsolete)A pack or company of people.

   “Would not this […] get me a fellowship in a cry of players?”

7. A typical sound made by the species in question.

   “"Woof" is the cry of a dog, while "neigh" is the cry of a horse.”

   “But the shrill wild cry of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant.”

8. A desperate or urgent request.
9. (obsolete)Common report; gossip.

   “The cry goes that you shall marry her.”