† woningn.
Obsolete.
Moaning, lamentation.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > moaning or groaning > [noun]
woningc950
groaningc1000
yomeringc1000
i-mone1297
bemoaningc1300
groanc1325
moan1599
moaning1724
granking1807
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > wailing
reameOE
woningc950
reminga1200
wailinga1400
bewailing1485
howling1490
yammer?a1513
wailc1540
wailment1593
bewailment1607
ejulationa1620
alleleu1689
yammering1705
ululation?1799
waly-walying1821
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark v. 38 Gesaeh þæt wanung.
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxiii. 104 La..hwæt mæg beon geomrung and wanung gyf þæt næs se fulla ægðres?
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 33 In helle..þer is waning and graming and toþen grisbating.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 177 Ðanne hauen wanspedie men on heorte wowe and on muðe woninge.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 311 Þu..tellest þat ich ne can nouht singe Ac al my reorde is wonyng.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 15454 Achilles ligges..Ded In Troye In gret wowenyng.
c1425 Engl. Conquest Ireland (1896) 144 In al places was weylynge & wonynge, yollynge & crynge.
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n.c950see also
- to make search
- to make semblance
- to make semblant
- to make sense
- to make sense of
- to make sense out of
- to make separation
- to make sermon
- to make sermoning of
- to make set force
- to make shabbat
- to make shabbos
- to make shift
- to make shift of
- to make shipwreck
- to make shipwreck of
- to make shipwreck of a good conscience
- to make short
- to make short boards
- to make short of long
- to make short work of
- to make short work of occasionally with
- to make shorter by a head
- to make showers
- to make showing of