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.
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.