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Verb
make moan (third-person singular simple present makes moan, present participle making moan, simple past and past participle made moan)
- (now chiefly Scotland) To lament, complain.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: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.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. (First Quarto), London: ">…] for Thomas Fisher, , published 1600, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):These yellow cowslip cheeks / Are gone, are gone. Lovers, make moan.
1872, Christina Rossetti, In the Bleak Midwinter:In the bleak mid-winter / Frosty wind made moan, / Earth stood hard as iron, / Water like a stone