Obsolete spelling of wail

(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waile

A surname.

A low, narrow-leaved evergreen shrub, Cneorum tricoccon, found in southern Europe.

(Judaism, possibly offensive) The Western Wall.

(UK, slang, derogatory) The Daily Mail newspaper.

consternation, worry

One who wails or laments. / A professional hired mourner.

(mining, historical) A boy employed to pick out stones, pyrites, etc. remaining in the coal after it is screened.