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; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.

The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.

Taking one's own way; disobedient; froward; perverse; willful. My wife is in a wayward mood. Shak. Wayward beauty doth not fancy move. Fairfax. Wilt thou forgive the wayward thought Keble. -- Way"ward*ly, adv. -- Way"ward*ness, n.

distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

Originally, the title of a military commander in various Slavonic countries; afterwards applied to governors of towns or provinces. It was assumed for a time by the rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia, who were afterwards called hospodars, and has also been given to some inferior Turkish officers. [Written also vaivode, v…

The office, province, or jurisdiction of a waywode.

Wearied by traveling.

An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing office. [Written also way-goose.] [Eng.]

An elevated cableway.

An alley.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his [Mammon's] looks and thoughts. Milton.

Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey.

A way or passage under an arch.

Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans.

From a place; hence. The sound is going away. Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

Turned away; away. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

Breadthwise. Whewell.