mourning

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mourning - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mourning \Mourn"ing\, n. [AS. murnung.]
     1. The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation;
        sorrow.
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     2. Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp.
        clothing or a badge of somber black.
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              The houses to their tops with black were spread,
              And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     Deep mourning. See under Deep.
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  Mourn \Mourn\ (m[=o]rn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mourned
     (m[=o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Mourning.] [AS. murnan; akin to
     OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. ma['u]rnan.]
     1. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be
        sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or
        sadness.
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              Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for
              her.                                  --Gen. xxiii.
                                                    2.
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     2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
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              We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
                                                    --Shak.
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              Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
                                                    --Pope.
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  Mourning \Mourn"ing\, a.
     1. Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
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     2. Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as
        appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing;
        as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin,
        and the like.
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     Mourning bride (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa  atropurpurea
        ) with dark purple or crimson flowers in
        flattened heads.
  
     Mourning dove (Zool.), a wild dove (Zenaidura macroura)
        found throughout the United States; -- so named from its
        plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove. See Illust.
        under Dove.
  
     Mourning warbler (Zool.), an American ground warbler
        (Geothlypis Philadelphia). The male has the head, neck,
        and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat
        and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.
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mourning - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mourning
      adj 1: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
             [syn: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving,
             mourning(a), sorrowing(a)]
      n 1: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
           [syn: mourning, bereavement]
      2: the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
         [syn: lamentation, mourning]

mourning - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at 
  funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the 
  death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such 
  apparel. 
       2. It has been held in England, that a demand for mourning furnished to 
  the widow and family of the testator, is not a funeral expense. 2 Carr. & P. 
  207. Vide 14 Ves. 346; 1 Ves. & Bea. 364. See 2 Bell's Comm. 156. 
  
  

mourning - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "mourning":
     anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, black, crape, cypress,
     cypress lawn, deep mourning, desolation, despair, despondency,
     grief, grieving, heartache, howling, in mourning, keening, lament,
     lamentation, lamenting, loss, melancholy, misery, moaning,
     mourning band, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, sadness, sorrow,
     sorrowing, ululation, wailing, weeds, weeping, woe, woefulness,
     yew