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Weep (?), n. (Zool.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
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Weep, obs. imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.
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Weep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept (wĕpt); p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] [OE. wepen, AS. wēpan, from wōp lamentation; akin to OFries. wpa to lament, OS. wōp lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. ōp a shouting, crying, OS. wōpian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. œpa, Goth. wōpjan. √129.]
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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.
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And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck. Acts xx. 37.
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Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Mitford.
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And eyes that wake to weep. Mrs. Hemans.
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And they wept together in silence. Longfellow.
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2. To lament; to complain. “They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.” Num. xi. 13.
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3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
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The blood weeps from my heart. Shak.
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4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
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5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
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Weep, v. t.
1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. “I weep bitterly the dead.” A. S. Hardy.
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We wandering go
Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.
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2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, “to weep tears of joy”.
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Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton.
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Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Milton.
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