cryverb/kɹaɪ/

• 1

  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

  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

  To shout, scream, yell.

  • And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice.
• 4

  To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.

  • My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue.
• 5

  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

  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.
• 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.

crynoun/kɹaɪ/

• 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

  archaicA group of hounds.

  • A cry more tunable / Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn.
  • 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, in Edward Hawkins, The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Vol. I, W. Baxter, J. Parker, G. B. Whittaker (publs., 1824) pages 124 to 126, lines 648 to 659. […] Before the gates there sat / On either side a formidable shape; / The one seem’d woman to the waste, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold / Voluminous and vast, a serpent arm’d / With mortal sting: about her middle round / A cry of hell-hounds never ceasing bark’d / With wide Cerberean mouths full loud and rung / A hideous peal; yet, when they list,would creep, / If ought disturb'd their noise, into her womb, / and kennel there, yet there still bark’d and howl’d, / Within unseen. […]
• 6

  derogatoryobsoleteA 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.