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verb

Weep v. t. (past & past part. wept; pres. part. weeping)

To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." "We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe."

To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. "Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth." "Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm."

Weep v. i. (past & past part. wept; pres. part. weeping)

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. "And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck." "Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh." "And eyes that wake to weep." "And they wept together in silence."

To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat."

To flow in drops; to run in drops. "The blood weeps from my heart."

To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.

Weep v. obs. Imp. of Weep, for wept.

noun

Weep n. (Zool.) The lapwing; the wipe; so called from its cry.

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Etymology of 'Weep'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weep" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the negative. "We have been treated by you with kindness and affection. It is not for any slight we have received that we weep. Our mission is not to you only. We come from the other land to test mankind, and to try the sincerity of the living. Often we have heard the bereaved by death say that if the lost could be restored, ...

— The Indian Fairy Book - From the Original Legends • Cornelius Mathews

... you weep—and why, oh why do your wings droop as we hover above this fair star—which is the greenest and yet most terrible of all we have encountered in our flight? Its brilliant flowers look like a fairy dream—but its ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... Can it be that you have traveled that desert not willing to drink of the fountains that God opened at your feet? Oh, have you not realized the truth that Jesus is sympathetic with bereavement? Did He not mourn at the grave of Lazarus, and will He not weep with all those who are ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... other part, because everybody likes to be him; but there's nobody left for the 'lords o' Noroway' or the sailors, and the Wrig is the only maiden to sit on the shore, and she always forgets to comb her hair and weep at the right time." ...

— Penelope's Progress - Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

... a word from Sion's King Her captives to restore! Jacob with all his tribes shall sing, And Judah weep no more. ...

— The Psalms of David - Imitated in the Language of The New Testament - And Applied to The Christian State and Worship • Isaac Watts

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