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.