wailing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wailing	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for wailing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 Synonym(s): lamenting, wailing, wailful n loud cries made while weeping Synonym(s): wailing, bawling
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[91]la; cf. Icel. v[91], 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.