Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Weeping \Weep"ing\, n.
   The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of
   tears.

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.

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.

Source : WordNet®

weeping
     n : the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs
         or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying
         of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: {crying}, {tears}]

weeping
     adj : showing sorrow [syn: {dolorous}, {dolourous}, {lachrymose},
           {tearful}]