• To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore. • To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. • To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. • To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly. • To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep. • 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. • to publish the banns of, as for marriage. • A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves. • Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. • Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation. • Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor. • Importunate supplication. • Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares. • Common report; fame. • A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories. • A pack of hounds. • A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt. • The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.