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

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

\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\, 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.