mourn

verb

1. 1

   To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).

   For two months, she mourned her father's passing.

   She mourned the loss of her independence.

   We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

   Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

2. 2

   To engage in the social customs of mourning; to commemorate a death and/or honour the deceased socially.

   In that society, a spouse is mourned for one year, a parent for six months.

3. 3

   To utter in a sorrowful manner.

4. 4

   To wear mourning.

noun

1. 1

   Sorrow, grief.

   Anone after ther cam balen / and whan he sawe kynge Arthur / he alyght of his hors / and cam to the kynge on foote / and salewed hym / by my hede saide Arthur ye be welcome / Sire ryght now cam rydynge this way a knyght makynge grete moorne / for what cause I can not telle

2. 2

   A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

Forms

plural

mourns

past tense

mourned

past participle

mourned

present participle

mourning

third person singular

mourns