waill (wal)

[ I mot wepe and weyle whyl I live. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 437. The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Bryant , Death of the Flowers. II. trans. To grieve over; lament; bemoan; bewail. Thou holy chirche, thou maist be wailed . Rom . of the Rose , 1. 6271. Tell these sad women "Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, As 'tis to laugh at them. Shak ., Cor., iv. 1. 26.