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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weep \weep\, v. i. imp.  p. p. wept we^pt; p. pr.  vb.
   n. weeping. oe. wepen, as. w=epan, from w=op
   lamentation; akin to ofries. w?pa to lament, os. w=op
   lamentation, ohg. wuof, icel. =op a shouting, crying, os.
   w=opian to lament, ohg. wuoffan, wuoffen, icel. oepa,
   goth. w=opjan. root129.
   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
see also:
wept weeping 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weeping \weep"ing\, n.
   the act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of
   tears.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
weeping \weep"ing\, 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
see also:
weeping cross weeping rock weeping sinew ganglion weeping spring 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
weeping
     adj : showing sorrow syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose,
           tearful
     n : 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, tears
see also:
dolorous dolourous lachrymose tearful crying tears 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 moby thesaurus words for "weeping":
   awash, bathed, bawling, blubbering, cascading, cry, crying,
   dangling, deluged, dependent, depending, dipped,
   dissolved in tears, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet,
   drowned, effusion, engulfed, excretion, exfiltration,
   external secretion, extravasation, exudation, falling,
   falling loosely, filtering, filtration, fit of crying,
   flood of tears, flooded, flowing, good cry, greet, hanging, hung,
   immersed, in tears, internal secretion, inundated, lachryma,
   lachrymal, lachrymose, lachrymosity, lacrimation, lacrimatory,
   lactation, leaching, lixiviation, macerated, melting mood, ooze,
   oozing, overflowed, overflowing eyes, pendent, pending, pendulant,
   pendular, penduline, pendulous, pensile, percolating, percolation,
   permeated, ready to cry, saturated, secernment, secreta, secretion,
   seep, seepage, seeping, sniveling, soaked, soaking, soaking wet,
   soaky, sobbing, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused,
   steeped, straining, submerged, submersed, suspended, swamped,
   swinging, tear, tear bottle, teardrop, tearful, tearful eyes,
   tearfulness, tears, teary, transudation, waterlogged, watersoaked,
   weep, weepiness, weepy, weltering, whelmed, whimpering,
   with eyes suffused, wringing wet





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