Weep: Definition and part of speech

Weep

  1. imp. of Weep, for wept.
  2. n. The lapwing; the wipe; — so called from its cry.
  3. v. i. To lament; to complain.
  4. v. i. To flow in drops; to run in drops.
  5. v. i. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
  6. v. i. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; — said of a plant or its branches.
  7. v. t. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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