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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WEEPING, ppr. Lamenting; shedding tears.
WEEPING, n. Lamentation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
2: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping] n
1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: before 12th century 1. tearful 2. archaic rainy 3. having slender pendent branches <a weeping beech>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Weeping Weep"ing, n. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

wep'-ing.

See BURIAL, IV, 4, 5, 6.

Moby Thesaurus

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