v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Mourned p. pr. & vb. n. Mourning. ] [ AS. murnan; akin to OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. maúrnan. ] 1. To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner. [ 1913 Webster ]

We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if he mourned his rival's ill success. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

And looking over the hills, I mourn
The darling who shall not return. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter in a mournful manner or voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lovelorn nightingale
Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Deplore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d Morne. ] The armed or feruled end of a staff; in a sheephook, the end of the staff to which the hook is attached. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. murnung. ] 1. The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. [ 1913 Webster ]

The houses to their tops with black were spread,
And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deep mourning. See under Deep. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mourning bride (Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads. --
Mourning dove (Zool.), a wild dove (Zenaidura macroura) found throughout the United States; -- so named from its plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove. See Illust. under Dove. --
Mourning warbler (Zool.), an American ground warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia). The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a mourning manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Murnival. [ 1913 Webster ]