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Mournful; -- said of a species of music among the ancient Greeks. Busby.

Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.

A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.

A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.

r two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity. Dryden.

he strings. Me softer airs befit, and softer strings Of lute, or viol still, more apt for mournful things. Milton.

To express sorrow audibly; to make mournful outcry; to weep. Therefore I will wail and howl. Micah i. 8.

Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

or guarding by night. Shepherds keeping watch by night. Milton. All the long night their mournful watch they keep. Addison.

d in the dress of nuns. Full seemly her wympel ipinched is. Chaucer. For she had laid her mournful stole aside, And widowlike sad wimple thrown away. Spenser. Then Vivian rose, And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws. M. Arnold.

In a woeful manner; sorrowfully; mournfully; miserably; dolefully.

To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.