Meaning of make moan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To lament, complain.
   Scotland, poetic
2. To moan, to make a moaning sound.
   poetic

Examples

“when, too late awaking, well they kent / That their fayre guest was gone, they both begonne / To make exceeding mone, as they had been undonne.”

“These yellow cowslip cheeks / Are gone, are gone. Lovers, make moan.”

“I made a garland for her head, / And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; / She looked at me as she did love, / And made sweet moan.”

“In the bleak mid-winter / Frosty wind made moan, / Earth stood hard as iron, / Water like a stone […]”

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