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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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   Weeping, n. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
   
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   Weeping, a.
   1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.  “Weeping eyes.”  I. Watts.
   
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   2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.  “Weeping grounds.”  Mortimer.
   
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   3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, “weeping willow; a weeping ash”.
   
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   4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
   
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   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.
   
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