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3. Any expression of grief, distress,
etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in
lamentation.

There shall be a great cry throughout all
the land.

Ex. xi. 6.

An infant crying in the night,

An infant crying for the light;

And with no language but a cry.

Tennyson.

4. Loud expression of triumph or wonder
or of popular acclamation or favor. Swift.

The cry went once on thee.

Shak.

5. Importunate supplication.

O, the most piteous cry of the poor
souls.

Shak.

6. Public advertisement by outcry;
proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.

The street cries of London.

Mayhew.

7. Common report; fame.

The cry goes that you shall marry her.

Shak.

8. A word or phrase caught up by a party
or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of
the Tories.


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