Hypertext Webster Gateway: "wept"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wept \Wept\,
imp. & p. p. of {Weep}.

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