give cry

present singular third person gives cry · participle present giving cry · past gave cry · participle past given cry

1. To cry out.

   The journalists gave cry after the Prince, like a pack of hounds when they strike the trail of a fox.

   1891 July 25, The Review of Reviews

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   It is, in my belief, an artificial, man-made development in hounds, since it exists only in rudimentary form in other dogs, foxes, and wolves, which are said sometimes to give cry when hunting their game.

   1937, Joseph Brown Thomas, Hounds and hunting through the ages