Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cry \Cry\ (kr?), n.; pl. {Cries} (kr?z). [F. cri, fr. crier to
   cry. See {Cry}, v. i. ]
   1. A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound
      produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of
      hounds; the cry of wolves. --Milton.

   2. Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.

            Again that cry was found to have been as
            unreasonable as ever.                 --Macaulay.

   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.

            All now depends upon a good cry.      --Beaconsfield.

   9. A pack of hounds. --Milton.

            A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered
            with horn.                            --Shak.

   10. A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.

             Would not this . . . get me a fellowship in a cry
             of players?                          --Shak.

   11. The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent
       back and forth.

   {A far cry}, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending
      of criers or messengers through the territory of a
      Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.