资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wail \Wail\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wailed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Wailing}.] [OE. wailen, weilen, probably fr. Icel. v[ae]la;
   cf. Icel. v[ae], vei, woe, and E. wayment, also OE. wai, wei,
   woe. Cf. {Woe}.]
   To lament; to bewail; to grieve over; as, to wail one's
   death. --Shak.