a. rare. [f. WAIL sb. or v. + -SOME.] † a. That is to be bewailed. Obs. b. Having a wailing sound.
1566. Studley, Seneca’s Medea, V. (1581), T 5. And this with wailesome murther like shall lose her tender life.
1891. Kipling, City Dreadf. Nt., vi. (1892), 36. Another wilderness of shut-up houses, wherein it seems that people do continually and feebly strum stringed instruments of a plaintive and wailsome nature.
