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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Weep

Weep, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. WEPT; p. pr. & vb. n. WEEPING.] [A-S. wêpan, O. Fries. wêpa, O. Sax. wôpan, wôpjan, Goth. vopjan, Icel. öpa, O. H. Ger. wuofan, wuofjan, M. H. Ger. wäfen, wuofen, wüefen. Cf. WHOOP.]

Sense 1. 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, and kissed him. Acts xx. 37.

Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Mitford.

Sense 2. To lament; to complain. Num. xi. 13.

Sense 3. To flow in drops; to run in drops. “The blood weeps from my heart.” Shak.

Sense 4. To drop water; to drip; to be soaked or very wet.

Sense 5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; as, a weeping willow.

Weep, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.

We, wandering, go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.

Sense 2. To shed or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. “Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.” Milton.

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton.