wailer2 (waler)

[ wailere t (wa'ler-es), n. [ME. weilere e; Beholde ze, and clepe ze wymmen that weilen [var. we i leres sis, wailsteris , tr. L. lament a trices). Wyclif , Jer. ix. 17. wailful (wal'fül), a . [ Thus did she watch, and weare the weary night In waylfull plaints that none was to appease. Spenser, F. Q., V. vi. 26. While thro' the braes the cushat croods With wailfu ' cry! Burns, To W. Simpson. 21. Lamentable; worthy of wailing. Bloody hands, whose cruelty frame The wailful works that scourge the poor, without regard of blame. Surrey, Ps. lxxiii. wailing (wa'ling), n. [ ; verbal n. of waill , v.] The act of expre ing sorrow, grief, or the like audibly; loud cries of sorrow; deep lamentation. Myche weping & wo, waylyng of teris, And lamentacioun full long for loue of hym one. Destruction of Troy (Ε. Ε. Τ. S.), 1. 7155. Mat. xiii. 42. There shall be wailing and guashing of teeth. wailingly (wa'ling-li), adv . [ wailing +-ly2.] In a wailing manner; with wailing. Shrilly, wailingly sounded a cry of mortal agony. wailment (wal-ment), n. Lamentation. The Century, XXIX. 60. [ O day of wailment to all that are yet unborn! Bp. Hacket , Abp. Williams, ii. 224. ( Latham .) wailstert (wal's ter), n. [ME., waill + -ster .] Same as wailere . Wyclif , Jer. ix. (in MS. I.). waimentt, waymentt (wa-ment'), v. i. [ waimenter , weymenter, guaimenter , gamanter , etc., lament; per haps a variation, in imitation of OF. wai, quai (Sp. Pg. It. guai = Goth. wai, woe: see woe, and cf. waill ), of lamenter, "Sir," seide A grav a in, "ne weymente ye not so, ffor yef god will he ne hath noon harme.' Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 513, Thilke science, as seith Seint August in, maketh a man to way men ten in his herte. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. waimentationt (wa-men-tā'shon), n. [ waimen tacion, waiment .] Lamentation. Made swiche wamentacioun That pite was to heare the soun. The Isle of Ladies , 1. 1855. waimentingt, waymentingt, n. [ME., verbal n. of waiment , v.] Lamentation; bewailing. The sacred teres, and the waymenting , The firy strokes of the desiring That loves ser vaunts in this lyf enduren. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1063.