Wail
A wail — a cry of raw grief — often touches fearful news of disaster and woe, with desertion and distress for a young woman who hears one. The dream may ask where a sound of anguish is reaching you, and whether the keening note breaking through is the herald of hard tidings, or the voice of a loss you fear may soon be your own.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for wail, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
A wail falling upon your ear while in the midst of a dream, brings fearful news of disaster and woe.
For a young woman to hear a wail, foretells that she will be deserted and left alone in distress, and perchance disgrace.
[238] See Weeping.