A bewailment is an act of bewailing - of wailing over or feeling great sorrow for someone or something.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern --WAI----. That is, nine letter words with 3rd letter W and 4th letter A and 5th letter I. In alphabetical order, they are:

bewailers

bewailing

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern BE-AI----. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter B and 2nd letter E and 4th letter A and 5th letter I. In alphabetical order, they are:

bepainted

besainted

bewailers

bewailing

An allusion is an indirect reference to something. In 'Antigone', one example of an allusion is the phrase 'bewailing the loss of his bride'. The possessive adjective 'his' refers to Haemon. The noun 'bride' refers to Antigone, who is Haemon's cousin and bride-to-be. Another example is the phrase 'the Cadmean bride'. The adjective 'Cadmean' refers to the Cadmeia Palace on the Theban acropolis. The noun 'bride' refers to Semele, who is the daughter of Theban founder Cadmus and Harmonia, and the mother of the god Bacchus. Semele's home is the Cadmeia Palace.

"Blues" is an indigenous black American music form usually based around a twelve-bar harmonic pattern: four tonic, two subdominant, two tonic, two dominant and two tonic. The rhythm is usually a slow 12/8 time. The lyrics are often bewailing personal tragedy or hardship--singing songs of this kind could be consoling when trying to live a difficult life.

By extension, "the blues" can mean feeling sad, put upon, unfortunate or just out of sorts.