Weep"ing, n.
The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
© Webster 1913.
Weep"ing, a.
1.
Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
"
Weeping eyes."
I. Watts.
2.
Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
"
Weeping grounds."
Mortimer.
3.
Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
4.
Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
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. -- Weeping willow Bot., a species of willow (Salix Babylonica) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly.
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