Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.
1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. ``Weeping eyes.''
--I. Watts.
2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very
slowly; surcharged with water. ``Weeping grounds.''
--Mortimer.
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.
{Weeping willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix
Babylonica}) whose branches grow very long and slender,
and hang down almost perpendicularly.