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"Section C"

(b) To complain
loudly; to lament.
-- To cry out against,
to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame. --
To cry out on or upon, to
denounce; to censure.
"Cries out upon abuses."
Shak. -- To cry to, to call on in
prayer; to implore.
-- To cry you mercy,
to beg your pardon. "I cry you mercy, madam; was
it you?" Shak.


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.


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