- (n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
- (v.i.) 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.
- (v.t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
- (v.t.) To shed or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
- (v.i.) To drop water or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
- (v.i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
- (v.i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
- (v.i.) To lament; to complain.
- imp. of Weep, for wept.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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