Found 6 hits - Term: mourning, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mourning \mourn"ing\, n. as. murnung.
1. the act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation;
sorrow.
1913 webster
2. garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp.
clothing or a badge of somber black.
1913 webster
the houses to their tops with black were spread,
and ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.
--dryden.
1913 webster
deep mourning. see under deep.
1913 webster
see also:
deep mourning deep
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mourn \mourn\ m=orn, v. i. imp. p. p. mourned
m=ornd; p. pr. vb. n. mourning. as. murnan; akin to
os. mornian, ohg. mornen, goth. ma'urnan.
1. to express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be
sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or
sadness.
1913 webster
abraham came to mourn for sarah, and to weep for
her. --gen. xxiii.
2.
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2. to wear the customary garb of a mourner.
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we mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
--shak.
1913 webster
grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
--pope.
1913 webster
see also:
mourned mourning
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mourning \mourn"ing\, a.
1. grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
1913 webster
2. employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as
appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing;
as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin,
and the like.
1913 webster
mourning bride bot., a garden flower scabiosa
atropurpurea with dark purple or crimson flowers in
flattened heads.
mourning dove zool., a wild dove zenaidura macroura
found throughout the united states; -- so named from its
plaintive note. called also carolina dove. see illust.
under dove.
mourning warbler zool., an american ground warbler
geothlypis philadelphia. the male has the head, neck,
and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat
and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.
1913 webster
see also:
mourning bride scabiosa atropurpurea mourning dove zenaidura macroura carolina dove dove
mourning warbler geothlypis philadelphia
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
mourning
adj : sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"
syn: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving,
mourninga, sorrowinga
n 1: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
syn: bereavement
2: the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing
grief syn: lamentation
see also:
bereaved bereft grief-stricken grieving mourninga sorrowinga
bereavement lamentation
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
38 moby thesaurus words for "mourning":
anguish, bemoaning, bereavement, bewailing, black, crape, cypress,
cypress lawn, deep mourning, desolation, despair, despondency,
grief, grieving, heartache, howling, in mourning, keening, lament,
lamentation, lamenting, loss, melancholy, misery, moaning,
mourning band, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, sadness, sorrow,
sorrowing, ululation, wailing, weeds, weeping, woe, woefulness,
yew
- [6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
mourning. this word has several significations. 1. it is the apparel worn at
funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the
death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. the expenses paid for such
apparel.
2. it has been held in england, that a demand for mourning furnished to
the widow and family of the testator, is not a funeral expense. 2 carr. p.
207. vide 14 ves. 346; 1 ves. bea. 364. see 2 bell's comm. 156.
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