<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who weeps.</li><li>(formerly) a hired mourner at a funeral.</li><li>something worn as a badge of mourning, as a widow's black veil.</li><li>a wine bottle that has lost some of its contents through the cork.</li><li>any of various loose-hanging, streamerlike objects, as a long, hanging hatband or a strand of moss hanging from a tree.</li><li>Informal. a sad story, motion picture, song, or the like, that is apt to make one cry.</li></ul>