Definition of mourning

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Mourning (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.

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Mourning :: Mourning (a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like..
Crape :: Crape (n.) A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen..
Weeper :: Weeper (n.) A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.
Mourning :: Mourning (n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
Half-mast :: Half-mast (n.) A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.)..
Black :: Black (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
Lamentable :: Lamentable (a.) Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance..
Weed :: Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds..
Cockbill :: Cockbill (v. t.) To tilt up one end of so as to make almost vertical; as, to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning..
Greet :: Greet (n.) Mourning.
Mourning :: Mourning (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black..
Mourning :: Mourning (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.
Wayment :: Wayment (n.) Grief; lamentation; mourning.
Weedy :: Weedy (a.) Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments..
Condolement :: Condolement (n.) Sorrow; mourning; lamentation.
Bombazine :: Bombazine (n.) A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments..
Cyprus :: Cyprus (n.) A thin, transparent stuff, the same as, or corresponding to, crape. It was either white or black, the latter being most common, and used for mourning..
Jet :: "Jet (n.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber..
Mournful :: Mournful (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..
Mourningly :: Mourningly (adv.) In a mourning manner.
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