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My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman. "Erin mavournin." Campbell.

To turn amiss; to pervert.

ieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2.

The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney.

One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron.

Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n.

lack. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. Deep mourning. See under Deep.

In a mourning manner.

See Murnival.

To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

e same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything. [Obs.] [Written also mournival.]

An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.

Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden.

By night; nightly.

w used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

Same as Nocturne.

To exceed in burning.

To burn too much; to be overzealous.

To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.