bewail ment

[Eng. bewail; -ment.] The act of bewailing. ( L'ackwood.) *bě-wake, *bi-wake, v.t. [Eng. prefix be, and wake.] 1. To awaken thoroughly; to keep awake; to watch. "I wote that night was well bewaked ," Gower: Conf . Am . , bk. v. 2. To "wake" a corpse. "He was biwaked rich eliche." Seuyn Sages, 2,578. bě-waked, pa . par . & a. [BEWAKE.] bě-wāk-ing, pr . par . [BEWAKE.]