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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wept}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weeping}.] [OE. wepen, AS. w[?]pan, from w[?]p lamentation; akin to OFries. w[?]pa to lament, OS. w[?]p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. [?]p a shouting, crying, OS. w[?]pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. [?]pa, Goth. w[?]pjan. [?][?][?][?].] 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. [bd]They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.[b8] --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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Wept \Wept\, imp. & p. p. of {Weep}. | |
