Wailing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wail \Wail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wailed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wailing}.] [OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. v[ae]la;
     cf. Icel. v[ae], vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei,
     woe. Cf. {Woe}.]
     To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's
     death. --Shak.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wailing
       adj : vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such
             expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners";
             "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her
             desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: {lamenting},
              {wailful}]
       n : loud cries made while weeping [syn: {bawling}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "wailing":
     acute, argute, bawling, bemoaning, bewailing, blatant, creaky,
     crying, ear-piercing, grieving, howling, in mourning, keen,
     keening, lamentation, lamenting, lowing, moaning, mourning,
     mugient, penetrating, piercing, piping, puling, reedy, screaky,
     screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sorrow,
     sorrowing, squeaking, squeaky, thin, ululant, ululation, whining,
     whistling