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weeping

weeping is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." I. Watts.
  2. 2.Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." Mortimer.
  3. 3.Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.
  4. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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