wailing

3 definitions found

wailing - 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]

wailing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

wailing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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