Definition of weep

• n. - The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
• - imp. of Weep, for wept.
• v. i. - 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.
• v. i. - To lament; to complain.
• v. i. - To flow in drops; to run in drops.
• v. i. - To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
• v. i. - To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
• v. t. - To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
• v. t. - To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.