weep

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Wept p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping. ] [ OE. wepen, AS. wēpan, from wōp lamentation; akin to OFries. w&unr_;pa to lament, OS. wōp lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. ōp a shouting, crying, OS. wōpian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. œpa, Goth. wōpjan. √129. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. Acts xx. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

And eyes that wake to weep. Mrs. Hemans. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they wept together in silence. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lament; to complain. “They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.” Num. xi. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To flow in drops; to run in drops. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blood weeps from my heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. “Weeping eyes.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. “Weeping grounds.” Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a variety of European beech (Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula) with pendulous limbs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]