[f. as prec. + -ER1.]
1. One who bewails or laments.
1614. R. Tailor, Hog hath lost Pearl, IV. in Dodsley (1780), VI. 433. O blest bewailer of thy misery!
1710. R. Ward, Life H. More, 186. A great bewailer of the late troublesome times.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., 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.