| weep | 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. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." "We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe." (Pope) 2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. "Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." (Milton) "Groves whose rich trees wept odourous gums and balm." (Milton) 3. <zoology> The lapwing; the wipe; so called from its cry. Origin: OE. Wepen, AS. Wpan, from wp lamentation; akin to OFries. Wpa to lament, OS. Wp lamentation, OHG. Wuof, Icel. P a shouting, crying, OS. Wpian to lament, OHG. Wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. Pa, Goth. Wpjan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| weeper | 1. One who weeps; especially, one who sheds tears. 2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. 3. <zoology> The capuchin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| weeping | 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." 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. Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly. <botany> Weeping willow, a species of willow (Salix Babylonica) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly. (04 Mar 1998) |
| weeping eczema | A moist, eczematous dermatitis. (05 Mar 2000) |