Weeping \Weep"ing\, n. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.

1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. ``Weeping eyes.'' --I. Watts.

2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. ``Weeping grounds.'' --Mortimer.

3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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. ``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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)