Weeping: Definition and part of speech

Weeping

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Weep
  2. n. The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
  3. a. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.
  4. a. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.
  5. a. Having slender, pendent branches; — said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

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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