From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mourn \Mourn\ (m[=o]rn), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mourned} (m[=o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mourning}.] [AS. murnan; akin to OS. mornian, OHG. mornen, Goth. ma['u]rnan.]
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.
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. --Gen. xxiii. 2.
2. To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood? --Shak.
Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mourn \Mourn\, verb (used with an object)
1. To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
As if he mourned his rival's ill success. --Addison.
And looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return. --Emerson.
2. To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"
2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "mourn": ache, agonize, bemoan, bewail, bleed, brood over, deplore, dirge, discomfort, dismay, distress, elegize, fret, give sorrow words, grieve, grieve over, keen, knell, lament, moan, mope, pain, pine, pine away, regret, repine, rue, sigh, sing the blues, sorrow, take on, weep for, weep over
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Mourn Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Num. 20:29), for Moses (Deut. 34:8), and for Samuel (1 Sam. 25:1); David for Abner (2 Sam. 3:31, 35); Mary and Martha for Lazarus (John 11); devout men for Stephen (Acts 8:2), etc. (2.) For calamities, Job (1:20, 21; 2:8); Israel (Ex. 33:4); the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin (Judg. 20:26), etc. (3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of atonement (Lev. 23:27; Acts 27:9); under Samuel's ministry (1 Sam. 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zech. 12:10, 11); in many of the psalms (51, etc.). Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Gen. 35:8, marg.; Luke 7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Sam. 6:19; 2 Sam. 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending the clothes (Gen. 37:29, 34; Matt. 26:65), wearing sackcloth (Gen. 37:34; Ps. 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person (2 Sam. 13:19; Jer. 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Lev. 10:6; Job 1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Ex. 33:4; Deut. 21:12, 13; 2 Sam. 14:2; 19:24; Matt. 6:16, 17), fasting (2 Sam. 1:12), covering the upper lip (Lev. 13:45; Micah 3:7), cutting the flesh (Jer. 16:6, 7), and sitting in silence (Judg. 20:26; 2 Sam. 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20). In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of sorrow (2 Chr. 35:25; Jer. 9:17; Matt. 9:23). The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Gen. 50:3); for Aaron (Num. 20:29) and Moses (Deut. 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1 Sam. 31:13). In 2 Sam. 3:31-35, we have a description of the great mourning for the death of Abner.
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