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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wailing 
  adj  :  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}, 
  {wailful}] 
  n  :  loud  cries  made  while  weeping  [syn:  {bawling}] 




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