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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weeping  \Weep"ing\,  n. 
  The  act  of  one  who  weeps;  lamentation  with  tears;  shedding  of 
  tears. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weeping  \Weep"ing\,  a. 
  1.  Grieving;  lamenting;  shedding  tears.  ``Weeping  eyes.'' 
  --I.  Watts. 
 
  2.  Discharging  water,  or  other  liquid,  in  drops  or  very 
  slowly;  surcharged  with  water.  ``Weeping  grounds.'' 
  --Mortimer. 
 
  3.  Having  slender,  pendent  branches;  --  said  of  trees;  as 
  weeping  willow;  a  weeping  ash. 
 
  4.  Pertaining  to  lamentation,  or  those  who  weep. 
 
  {Weeping  cross},  a  cross  erected  on  or  by  the  highway, 
  especially  for  the  devotions  of  penitents;  hence  to 
  return  by  the  weeping  cross,  to  return  from  some 
  undertaking  in  humiliation  or  penitence. 
 
  {Weeping  rock},  a  porous  rock  from  which  water  gradually 
  issues. 
 
  {Weeping  sinew},  a  ganglion.  See  {Ganglion},  n.,  2.  [Colloq.] 
 
 
  {Weeping  spring},  a  spring  that  discharges  water  slowly. 
 
  {Weeping  willow}  (Bot.),  a  species  of  willow  ({Salix 
  Babylonica})  whose  branches  grow  very  long  and  slender, 
  and  hang  down  almost  perpendicularly. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Weep  \Weep\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wept};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Weeping}.]  [OE.  wepen,  AS  w?pan,  from  w?p  lamentation;  akin 
  to  OFries  w?pa  to  lament,  OS  w?p  lamentation,  OHG.  wuof, 
  Icel.  ?p  a  shouting,  crying,  OS  w?pian  to  lament,  OHG. 
  wuoffan  wuoffen  Icel.  ?pa,  Goth.  w?pjan.  ????.] 
  1.  Formerly,  to  express  sorrow,  grief,  or  anguish,  by  outcry, 
  or  by  other  manifest  signs;  in  modern  use  to  show  grief 
  or  other  passions  by  shedding  tears;  to  shed  tears;  to 
  cry. 
 
  And  they  all  wept  sore,  and  fell  on  Paul's  neck. 
  --Acts  xx  37. 
 
  Phocion  was  rarely  seen  to  weep  or  to  laugh. 
  --Mitford. 
 
  And  eyes  that  wake  to  weep.  --Mrs.  Hemans. 
 
  And  they  wept  together  in  silence.  --Longfellow. 
 
  2.  To  lament;  to  complain.  ``They  weep  unto  me  saying,  Give 
  us  flesh,  that  we  may  eat.''  --Num.  xi  13. 
 
  3.  To  flow  in  drops;  to  run  in  drops. 
 
  The  blood  weeps  from  my  heart.  --Shak. 
 
  4.  To  drop  water,  or  the  like  to  drip;  to  be  soaked. 
 
  5.  To  hang  the  branches,  as  if  in  sorrow;  to  be  pendent;  to 
  droop;  --  said  of  a  plant  or  its  branches. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  weeping 
  adj  :  showing  sorrow  [syn:  {dolorous},  {dolourous},  {lachrymose}, 
  {tearful}] 
  n  :  the  process  of  shedding  tears  (usually  accompanied  by  sobs 
  or  other  inarticulate  sounds);  "I  hate  to  hear  a  child 
  crying";  "she  was  in  tears"  [syn:  {crying},  {tears}]




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