Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CRY
CRY, v.t.
To proclaim; to name loudly and publicly forgiving notice; as, to cry goods; to cry a lost child. To cry down, to decry; to depreciate by words or in writing; to dispraise; to condemn. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. – Tillotson. #2. To overbear. Cry down this fellow's insolence. – Shak. To cry up, to praise; to applaud; to extol; as, to cry up a man's talents or patriotism, or a woman's beauty; to cry up the administration. #2. To raise the price by proclamation; as, to cry up certain coins. [Not in use.] – Temple. To cry off, in the vulgar dialect, is to publish intentions of marriage.
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