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Weeping cross
(gcide) | Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.
1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." --I.
Watts.
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2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very
slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds."
--Mortimer.
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3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as,
weeping willow; a weeping ash.
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4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.
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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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