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