#839. [Expression of pain.] Lamentation. —­ N. lament, lamentation;
wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, suspiration, heaving, deep sigh.
     cry &c. (vociferation) 411; scream, howl; outcry, wail of woe,
ululation; frown, scowl.
     tear; weeping &c. v.; flood of tears, fit of crying, lacrimation,
lachrymation[obs3], melting mood, weeping and gnashing of teeth.
     plaintiveness &c. adj.; languishment[obs3]; condolence &c. 915.
     mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and
ashes; lachrymatory[obs3]; knell &c. 363; deep death song, dirge, coronach[obs3], nenia[obs3], requiem, elegy, epicedium[obs3]; threne[obs3]; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade|!; ullalulla[obs3].
     mourner; grumbler &c. (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus. 
     V. lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole
with &c. 915; fret &c. (suffer) 828; wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem &c. (regret) 833[Lat][Vergil]; give sorrow words.
     sigh; give a sigh, heave, fetch a sigh; “waft a sigh from Indus to the
pole” [Pope]; sigh “like a furnace” [As you Like It]; wail.
     cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber[obs3], whimper,
pule; pipe one’s eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes[Fr]; cry oneself blind, cry one’s eyes out; yammer.
     scream &c. (cry out) 411; mew &c. (animal sounds) 412; groan, moan,
whine; roar; roar like a bull, bellow like a bull; cry out lustily, rend the air.
     frown, scowl, make a wry face, gnash one’s teeth, wring one’s hands,
tear one’s hair, beat one’s breast, roll on the ground, burst with grief.
     complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about,
croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate &c. (disapprove) 932.
     cry out before one is hurt, complain without cause. 
     Adj. lamenting &c. v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing,
sorrowful &c. (unhappy) 828; mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive, plaintful[obs3]; querulous, querimonious[obs3]; in the melting mood; threnetic[obs3].
     in tears, with tears in one’s eyes; with moistened eyes, with watery
eyes; bathed in tears, dissolved in tears; “like Niobe all tears” [Hamlet].
     elegiac, epicedial[obs3]. 
     Adv. de profundis[Lat]; les larmes aux yeux[Fr]. 
     Int. heigh-ho! alas! alack[obs3]!  O dear! ah me! woe is me!
lackadaisy[obs3]! well a day! lack a day! alack a day[obs3]! wellaway[obs3]! alas the day!  O tempora O mores[obs3]! what a pity! miserabile dictu[Lat]!  O lud lud[obs3]! too true! 
     Phr. tears standing in the eyes, tears starting from the eyes; eyes
suffused, eyes swimming, eyes brimming, eyes overflowing with tears; “if you have tears prepare to shed them now” [Julius Caesar]; interdum lacrymae pondera vocis habent [Lat][Ovid]; “strangled his language in his tears” [Henry VIII]; “tears such as angels weep” [Paradise Lost].