Cry, v. t.
 1. To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
    All, all, cry shame against ye, yet I 'll speak.   --Shak.
    The man . . . ran on,crying, Life! life! Eternal life!   --Bunyan.
 2. To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
 3. 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.
    Love is lost, and thus she cries him.   --Crashaw.
 4. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
    I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath.   --Judd.
 To cry aim. See under Aim.
 To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn.
    Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it.   --Tillotson.

 To cry out, to proclaim; to shout. “Your gesture cries it out.” --Shak.
 To cry quits, to propose, or declare, the abandonment of a contest.
 To cry up, to enhance the value or reputation of by public and noisy praise; to extol; to laud publicly or urgently.