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sery; heavy calamity. Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, Sad instrument of all our woe, she took. Milton. [They] weep each other's woe. Pope.

Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful. Chaucer. So woe-begone was he with pains of love. Fairfax.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel.

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

The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

Woeful. [Obs.] Langhorne.

To exceed in woe. [Obs.]

ble or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. Milton. Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. Byron.

To accompany; to keep company with. [Obs.] Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Shak.

religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

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

Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert.

Surrounded; furnished; beset; environed (as in woe-begone). [Obs.] Gower. Chaucer.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. [Obs.] Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak.

lnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences; as, a charmed life. I, in my own woe charmed, Could not find death. Shak.

To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

o comparison; to regard with discriminating attention. Compare dead happiness with living woe. Shak. The place he found beyond expression bright, Compared with aught on earth. Milton. Compare our faces and be judge yourself. Shak. To compare great things with small. Milton.

th to before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx. 18. The thief condemned, in law already dead. Pope. No flocks that range the valley free, To slaughte…