Wailing

wailing
    adj 1: 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 [syn: {lamenting},
           {wailing}, {wailful}]
    n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: {wailing}, {bawling}]
    

Wail \Wail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wailed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Wailing}.] [OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. v[ae]la;
   cf. Icel. v[ae], vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei,
   woe. Cf. {Woe}.]
   To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's
   death. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]
    

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "wailing":
      acute, argute, bawling, bemoaning, bewailing, blatant, creaky,
      crying, ear-piercing, grieving, howling, in mourning, keen,
      keening, lamentation, lamenting, lowing, moaning, mourning,
      mugient, penetrating, piercing, piping, puling, reedy, screaky,
      screeching, screechy, sharp, shrieking, shrieky, shrill, sorrow,
      sorrowing, squeaking, squeaky, thin, ululant, ululation, whining,
      whistling