pret. and pp. cried. It ought to be cryed.

To utter a loud voice; to speak, call or exclaim with vehemence; in a very general sense.

To call importunately; to utter a loud voice, by way of earnest request of prayer. The people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Genesis 41:55. The people cried to Moses, and he prayed. Numbers 17:2.

To utter a loud voice in weeping; to utter the voice of sorrow; to lament. But ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. Isaiah 65:14. Esau cried with a great and bitter cry. Genesis 27:34. Also, to weep or shed tears in silence; a popular use of the word.

To utter a loud sound in distress; as, Heshbon shall cry. IsaIah 15:4. He giveth food to the young raves which cry. Psalm 147:9.

To exclaim; to utter a loud voice; with out. And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out. Luke 9:39.

To proclaim; to utter a loud voice, in giving public notice. Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 2:2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Isaiah 40:3.

To bawl; to squall; as a child.

To yelp, as a dog. It may be used for the uttering of a loud voice by other animals. To cry against, to exclaim, or utter a loud voice, by way of reproof, threatening or censure./ . Arise, go to Nineveh, and cry against it. Jonah 1:2. To cry out, to exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor. To complain loudly. To cry out against, to complain loudly, with a view to censure; to blame; to utter censure. To cry to, to call on in prayer; to implore.

To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly for giving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost a child. To cry down,

To decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it.

To overbear. Cry down this fellows insolence. To cry up,

To praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a man’s talents or patriotism, or a womans beauty; to cry up the administration.

To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. To cry off, in the vulgar dialect, is to publish intentions of marriage.

cries.

In a general sense, a loud sound uttered by the mouth of an animal; applicable to the voice of man or beast, and articulate or inarticulate.

A loud or vehement sound, uttered in weeping, or lamentation; it may be a shriek or scream. And there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt. Exodus 11:6.

Clamor; outcry; as, war, war, is the public cry. And there arose a great cry. Acts 23:9.

Exclamations of triumph, or wonder, or of other passion.

Proclamation; public notice. At midnight there was a cry made. Matthew 25:6.