A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
2
To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird. n
3
the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
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a mournful poem
5
the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
