1. (v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

2. (v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.

3. (v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

4. (n.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.

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