Weep·ing, a.
1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. “Weeping eyes.”
2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. “Weeping grounds.”
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.
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