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Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. [Archaic]

erocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden.

To express grief; to lament. Shak.

implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind. The lip that curls with bitterness. Percival. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Job vii. 11.

m of youth. Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief; as, my heart is breaking.

An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

A brief and pertinent mode of speaking. [R.]

Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

d dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. Atterbury.

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority for the information of the public.

Any brief, violent evertion or effort; a spurt; as, a burst of speed.

To regulate by musical measure. These parting numbers, cadenced by my grief. Philips.

To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. He ordered her to call at the house once a week. Temple. To call for (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b)…

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.

e secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.