wayment (third-person singular simple present wayments, present participle waymenting, simple past and past participle waymented)
(ambitransitive, obsolete) To lament.
wayment
(obsolete) Lamentation; grief.
Contraction.
wayment
(slang, nonstandard) Wait a minute.
Source: Wiktionary
Way"ment, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n. Waymenting.] Etym: [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament. See Lament.]
Definition: To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Thilke science . . . maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer. For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced Spenser.
Way"ment, n.
Definition: Grief; lamentation; mourning. [Written also waiment.] [Obs.] Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 June 2025
(noun) a member of a learned society; “he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
