Definition of "disconsolately"

From the bank the lamb looked at her, then faced round to the hut, and, baaing disconsolately, trotted a few paces back.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44