Associations to the word «Wailing»

Wiktionary

WAILING, noun. A loud drawn out scream and howl.
WAILING, verb. Present participle of wail

Dictionary definition

WAILING, noun. Loud cries made while weeping.
WAILING, adjective. Vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats