Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Weep \Weep\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wept}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Weeping}.] [OE. wepen, AS. w?pan, from w?p lamentation; akin
   to OFries. w?pa to lament, OS. w?p lamentation, OHG. wuof,
   Icel. ?p a shouting, crying, OS. w?pian to lament, OHG.
   wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. ?pa, Goth. w?pjan. ????.]
   1. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry,
      or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief
      or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to
      cry.

            And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck.
                                                  --Acts xx. 37.

            Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
                                                  --Mitford.

            And eyes that wake to weep.           --Mrs. Hemans.

            And they wept together in silence.    --Longfellow.

   2. To lament; to complain. ``They weep unto me, saying, Give
      us flesh, that we may eat.'' --Num. xi. 13.

   3. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

            The blood weeps from my heart.        --Shak.

   4. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.

   5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to
      droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.

Weep \Weep\, v. t.
   1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. ``I weep bitterly the
      dead.'' --A. S. Hardy.

            We wandering go Through dreary wastes, and weep each
            other's woe.                          --Pope.

   2. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as
      if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.

            Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. --Milton.

            Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.
                                                  --Milton.

Weep \Weep\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.

Weep \Weep\, obs.
   imp. of {Weep}, for wept. --Chaucer.

Source : WordNet®

weep
     v : shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried
         bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl
         in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could
         not get up the stairs" [syn: {cry}] [ant: {laugh}]
     [also: {wept}]