mourner ess

[Eng. mourner; -e .] A femeant the Common Shrew, Sorex vulgar is; the male mourner. "The principal mourner e apparalled as an esquier e e."-Fusbrooke: Smith ; Lives of the Berkeleys , p. 211. möurn'-fül, mourne-full, a. [Eng. mourn; -full.] 1. Full of sorrow or grief; sorrowful, grieving. 2. Sad, doleful; causing sorrow or grief. "In mingled throngs the Greek and Trojan train Through heaps of carnage search'd the mournful plain." Pope: Homer's Iliad , vii. 503. 3. Expre ive of mourning or sorrow; exhibiting the appearance of grief. "A lenten face mons, vol. vi., ser. 3. (2) Various animals more or le resembling the Common Mouse [1]. Thus, by Shrew Mouse is Short-tailed Field-mouse is Arvicola agrestis . 4. Entom .: A moth of the family Amphipyride. A man or a mouse : Something or nothing. mouse-bane, s. Bot.: Aconitum myoctonum. mouse-bird, s. Ornith.: The literal translation of the Dutch Muisvogel , the name given by the settlers in Natal and Cape Colony to the members of Bri on's genus Colius. The popular name may have reference either to the generally dun or slate-colored plumage of the birds, or to their mouse-like habit of creep ing along the boughs of trees, with the whole tarsus applied to the branch. a mournful ditty." -South: Ser mournful-widow, s. [MOURNING-WIDOWw (2).] möurn fül-ly, adv . [Eng. mournful ; -ly.] In I. 2 (3). a mournful manner; with mourning or sorrow. "Beat thou the drum that it speak mournfully ." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , v. 6. möurn-ful-ne , s. [Eng. mournful ; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being mournful. "Sing of Eliza's fixed mournfulne ." P. Fletcher: To my Cousin, W. R., Esq. 2. An appearance of sorrow; a show of grief. möurn-Ing, * mourn-ynge, pr . par ., a. & 8. [MOURN.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Grieving, sorrowing; expre ive of or intended to expre grief or sorrow; as, mourning garments. IMG:content-1450.png:[blocks in formation]