Mountlet to Move
Mountlet
(Mount"let) n. A small or low mountain. [R.]
Mounty
(Mount"y) n. [F. montée, fr. monter. See Mount, v.] The rise of a hawk after prey. Sir P.
Sidney.
Mourn
(Mourn) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mourned (mornd); p. pr. & vb. n. Mourning.] [AS. murnan; akin to
OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. maúrnan.]
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.
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Gen. xxiii. 2. 2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?
Shak.
Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.
Pope. Mourn
(Mourn), v. t.
1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
As if he mourned his rival's ill success.
Addison.
And looking over the hills, I mourn
The darling who shall not return.
Emerson. 2. To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
The lovelorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
Milton. Syn. — See Deplore.
Mourne
(Mourne) n. [See 2d Morne.] The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of
the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney.
Mourner
(Mourn"er) n.
1. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes.
Byron. 2. One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Mourners were provided to attend the funeral.
L'Estrange. Mournful
(Mourn"ful) a. Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also,
causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. — Mourn"ful*ly,
adv. — Mourn"ful*ness, n.
Syn. — Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous.
Mourning
(Mourn"ing), n. [AS. murnung.]
1. The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
