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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Weep

Weep (wēp), n. (Zoöl.) The lapwing; the wipe; — so called from its cry.

Weep, obs. imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.

Weep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] [OE. wepen, AS. wēpan, from wōp lamentation; akin to OFries. wēpa to lament, OS. wōp lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. ōp a shouting, crying, OS. wōpian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. ōpa, Goth. wōpjan. √129.]

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. Acts xx. 37.

Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Mitford.

And eyes that wake to weep. Mrs. Hemans.

And they wept together in silence. Longfellow.

2. To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat." Num. xi. 13.

3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

The blood weeps from my heart. Shak.

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, v. t. 1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. "I weep bitterly the dead." A. S. Hardy.

We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.

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. Milton.

Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Milton.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.