Word Meanings - WAILMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.

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• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• WAILINGLY
  In a wailing manner.
• WEEPING TREE
  Any tree having pendulous branches. A tree from which honeydew or other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp. one infested by the larvæ of any species of the genus Ptylus, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical
• WAILERESS
  A woman who wails.
• WEEPER
  The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 . (more info) 1. One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears. 2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith.
• WEEP
  The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
• WEEPFUL
  Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. Wyclif.
• WAILER
  One who wails or laments.
• WEEPINGLY
  In a weeping manner.
• WEEPING-RIPE
  Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. Shak.
• LAMENTATION
  1. The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation and weeping Matt. ii.
• WEEPING
  The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• 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.
• BEWAILABLE
  Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• FORWEEP
  To weep much.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• SWEEPWASHER
  One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
• SWEEPER
  One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.