Definition for WAIL

WAIL, v.i. [Ice. væla; It. guaiolare; Gaelic, guilam or uaill; W. gwylaw and wylaw; Arm. goela, to howl; Heb. and Ar. אבל aval.]

To lament; to moan; to bewail. Or if no more her absent lord she wails. – Pope.

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