Category:Weeping

Weep"ing, n.

Defn: the act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of Tears.

Weeping 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.