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Word Meanings - WAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.

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  • WAILMENT
    Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
  • CHOOSER
    One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.
  • WAILFUL
    Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
  • WAIL
    To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
  • WAILINGLY
    In a wailing manner.
  • WAILERESS
    A woman who wails.
  • SELECTIVE
    Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
  • SELECTEDLY
    With care and selection.
  • SELECTMAN
    One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated
  • CHOOSE
    kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kjosa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare 1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.
  • SELECTION
    The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
  • SELECT
    Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater
  • SELECTOR
    One who selects.
  • WAILER
    One who wails or laments.
  • SELECTNESS
    The quality or state of being select.
  • BEWAIL
    To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
  • BEWAILING
    Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
  • MISCHOOSE
    To choose wrongly. Milton.
  • BEWAILABLE
    Such as may, or ought to, be bewailed; lamentable.
  • INMEATS
    The edible viscera of animals, as the heart, liver, etc.
  • WIDOW-WAIL
    A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
  • PRESELECT
    To select beforehand.
  • BEWAILMENT
    The act of bewailing.

 

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