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.