Reverse Dictionary: WAIL

ADJECTIVES
► BEWAILFUL wailing, mournful → 1592 obs.
► ULULATIVE wailing, lamenting → 1490 obs.
► ULULATORY wailing, howling → 1831
► VAGIENT wailing, crying, squalling; said of infants → 1628 obs.
► WAILISH given to wailing, querulous → c1550 obs.
► YAMMERING wailing, crying with grief → 1536 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► EJULATION wailing, lamentation → a1619 obs.
► LAMACHEELIE a loud wail, a noisy lamentation, an outcry → 1925 Sc.
► LAMACHREE a loud wail, a noisy lamentation, an outcry → 1925 Sc.
► ULLAGONE a wail, a cry of lamentation; a funeral lament → 1828 Anglo-Irish
► ULULATION 1. a wail or howl; a cry of lamentation → 1599
2. a wailing or howling → 1799
► ULULU a wailing cry; a wail of lamentation → 1854
► VAGIT a wail, cry, lamentation → 1627 obs.
► WAILMENT wailing, lamentation → 1593 obs.
► WALLACH ► WALLOCH a wail, scream, or howl → 1866 Sc. 
► YAMMER a wail, a cry of lamentation; a loud outcry, shout, yell; lamentation, querulous utterance → 1500-20 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YAMMERING a wailing, a cry of grief → 1705 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YEI a wail, a cry → a1225 obs.

VERBS
► BLOWTER to wail or lament with many tears → 16C obs.
► GREDE to cry out, to shout; to wail → 1000 obs.
► MEAN to wail, to utter a moaning sound; to complain, to bemoan to indicate pain → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PLORE to wail, to shed tears → 1373 obs.
► RANE to wail or complain incessantly → 1899 Sc.
► SANNICK ► SANNOCK ► SONNOCK to utter a wailing, whining cry; to cry bitterly → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SANNY to utter a wailing, whining cry without apparent cause → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ULLAGONE to wail or lament loudly → 1828 Anglo-Irish
► ULULATE to wail or howl; to lament loudly → 1623
► WALLOCH to wail, to cry, to shriek, to scream, to howl → 1808 Sc. 
► YAMMER to wail, to utter cries of lamentation or distress → 1481 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YARM to wail, to howl, to utter a discordant or mournful cry → c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.