Word Meanings - WAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.

Related words: (words related to WAIL)

• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• CHOOSER
  One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• WAILINGLY
  In a wailing manner.
• WAILERESS
  A woman who wails.
• SELECTIVE
  Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
• SELECTEDLY
  With care and selection.
• SELECTMAN
  One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated
• CHOOSE
  kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kjosa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare 1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• SELECT
  Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater
• SELECTOR
  One who selects.
• WAILER
  One who wails or laments.
• SELECTNESS
  The quality or state of being select.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• MISCHOOSE
  To choose wrongly. Milton.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• INMEATS
  The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• PRESELECT
  To select beforehand.
• BEWAILMENT
  The act of bewailing.