What is "to cry out"

Cry \Cry\ (kr[imac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cried (kr[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Crying.] [F. crier, cf. L. quiritare to raise a plaintive cry, scream, shriek, perh. fr. queri to complain; cf. Skr. cvas to pant, hiss, sigh. Cf. Quarrel a brawl, Querulous.]

1. To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.

   And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice. -- Matt. xxvii. 46.

   Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice.
   --Shak.

   Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee. -- Ps. xxviii.

2. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord.
   --Is. xl.

3. Some cried after him to return.
   --Bunyan.

   2. To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.

   Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart.
   --Is. lxv. 1

4. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. --Shak. 3. To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals. The young ravens which cry. --Ps. cxlvii. 9. In a cowslip's bell I lie There I couch when owls do cry. --Shak. To cry on or To cry upon, to call upon the name of; to beseech. ``No longer on Saint Denis will we cry.'' --Shak. To cry out.

   1. To exclaim; to vociferate; to scream; to clamor.

   2. To complain loudly; to lament.

      To cry out against, to complain loudly of; to censure; to blame.

      To cry out on or To cry out 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 \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.