Dictionary entry

Wayment

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Way″ment (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Waymented; p. pr. & vb. n.Waymenting.] [OE. waymenten, OF. waimenter, gaimenter, guaimenter, from wai, guai, woe! (of Teutonic origin; see Woe) and L. lamentari to lament. See Lament.] To lament; to grieve; to wail. [Written also waiment.]

Thilke science... maketh a man to waymenten. Chaucer.

For what boots it to weep and wayment,

When ill is chanced? Spenser.