Definition of "mourne"

mourne¹

/moɹn/

noun
plural mournes
1. The armed or feruled end of a staff.
2. The end of a sheephook to which the hook is attached.

mourne²

verb
third-person singular simple present mournes, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned or mourn'd
1. Obsolete spelling of mourn
  Quotations
  Therefore mourne boldly my inke; for while the lookes vpon you, your blacknesse will shine
  a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,