mourning
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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.
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2. Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp.
clothing or a badge of somber black.
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The houses to their tops with black were spread,
And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.
--Dryden.
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{Deep mourning}. See under {Deep}.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mourn \Mourn\ (m[=o]rn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mourned}
(m[=o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mourning}.] [AS. murnan; akin to
OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. ma['u]rnan.]
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.
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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.
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Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
--Pope.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mourning \Mourn"ing\, a.
1. Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
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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.
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{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.
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from
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.
from
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,
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