Weep
Weep , noun
(Zoology) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
Weep , imperfect
Weep (wept) , intransitive verb
[Old English wepen, Anglo-Saxon wēpan, from wōp lamentation; akin to OFries. w{not transcribed}pa to lament, Old Saxon wōp lamentation, Old High German wuof, Icelandic ōp a shouting, crying, Old Saxon wōpian to lament, Old High German wuoffan, wuoffen, Icelandic opa, Gothic wōpjan. r129.]
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.
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.
2.
To lament; to complain.
They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
3.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
The blood weeps from my heart.
4.
To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
5.
To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
Weep , transitive verb
1.
To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
I weep bitterly the dead.
We wandering go
Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe.
2.
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.