mourner1 (morner)

1. One who mourns mourning-bride (mor'ning-brid'), n. The sweet or laments. Because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Eccles. xii. 5. 2. One employed to attend funerals in a habit of mourning. And the mourners go home, and take off their hatbands and scarves, and give them to their wives to make aprons of. E. B. Ramsay , Rem. of Scottish Life, p. 20. 3. Anything a ociated with mourning. The mourner -yew and builder-oak were there. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 961. 4. In certain localities, at a funeral, one who is recognized as belonging to the circle of those most afflicted by the death and has a special place accordingly. [Colloq.] - Indian mourner. Same as sad -tree.