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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. loud cries made while weeping;
[syn: wailing, bawling]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression;
- Example: "lamenting sinners"
- Example: "wailing mourners"
- Example: "the wailing wind"
- Example: "wailful bagpipes"
- Example: "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare
[syn: lamenting, wailing, wailful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wailing
    adj 1: 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,
           wailing, wailful]
    n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: wailing, bawling]