waile

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English

Verb

waile (third-person singular simple present wailes, present participle wailing, simple past and past participle wailed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of wail.
    • 1753, Theophilus Cibber, The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland[1]:
      Among the rest by fortune overthrowne, I am not least, that most may waile her fate: My fame and brute, abroad the world is blowne, Who can forget a thing thus done so late?

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