bewailer
(bɪˈweɪlə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who bewails or laments.
| 1614 R. Tailor Hog lost Pearl iv. in Dodsley (1780) VI. 433 O blest bewailer of thy misery! 1710 Ward Life H. More 186 A great bewailer of the late troublesome times. 1851 Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi 2 Bewailers for their Italy enchained. |
2. Zool. A species of monkey, the white-throated Sajou, also called Weeper.
| 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vii. i. 508 Called..the Bewailer, from its peculiar manner of lamenting. |