weepingn.
/ˈwiːpɪŋ/ The action of the verb in the various senses; an instance of this.† 4. Anatomy, as weeping corner (of the eye); weeping-flesh, the lachrymal caruncle; weeping vein, the ophthalmic vein. Obsolete. to ope the weeping vein: to cause weeping. poetic.
1.
a. The expression or manifestation of sorrow, pain, etc. by shedding tears.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun]
wopOE
reminga1200
weepingc1200
weepc1275
dolec1290
greetinga1300
greeta1325
grota1325
teara1340
tear1377
lachrymation?1530
gree?1567
waterworks1634
pipation1656
fletion1716
piping1779
ploration1828
blarting1898
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 53 We muȝen michel eðere forðen wepinge þene song.
c1275 Laȝamon Brut 5970 Mochel was þar wepinge.
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 600 My sorowe is turned to playnyng And al my laughter to wepyng.
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 158 Flodes..of trewest sorow and wepyng.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. Dij The great Alexander, hearing a certayne Philosophers oppinion to be that there were infinite worldes, fell in weping.
1573 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte (1576) ii. 16 b The wepyng of ye heire is the weepynge of one that laugheth vnder a vizar.
1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 91 in Purple Island There we laid asteeping Our eyes in endlesse weeping, For Sions fall.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. vi. 27 Sudden Dejection is the passion that causeth Weeping.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 95. ⁋3 There is nothing, on these Occasions, so much in their Favour as immoderate Weeping.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xxxii. 292 Weeping and wailing loud arose.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. i. 2 So must this book begin with tears and weeping.
1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance xix Such weeping as he had seen before had been so much a matter of damp white faces, red noses, and hair coming out of curl.
b. With a and plural.
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4180 He hurde..Of a womman a deoluol cry & a pitos wepinge.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. pr. ii. 9 And wiþ þe lappe of hir garment..she driede myn eyen þat were ful of þe wawes 0f my wepynges.
c1420 Prymer (1895) 52 [Ps. cxvi. 8] He haþ delyuerid..myn iȝen fro wepingis.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. (1812) I. cccxcvi. 683 Euery day encreased the complayntes, wepynges, and cryes, made to Phylyp Dartuell.
1645 J. Milton Passion viii, in Poems 19 Should I..Take up a weeping on the Mountains wilde.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain (1789) II. 51 You seem to hear the groans, weepings, and bewailings, from the dying.
1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob xx And then what a weeping and a wailing there was!
2. The exudation or dripping of moisture generally; the flow or discharge of humours from the body, of gum, etc. from a tree; also the liquid so falling. Also figurative the produce (of the vine).
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > [noun] > action of excreting
sheddingc1200
flux1377
outputtinga1387
purgationa1387
avoidancea1398
voidance1398
evacuation?1533
spurging1548
emptying1552
vacuation1583
emunction1601
regurgitation1601
vacation1617
excretion1640
egestion1644
weeping1655
elimination1665
despumation1684
excreting1849
1655 G. S. in S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 29 The Bees gather out of the weepings of Pine..Trees..abundance, both of Honey and Wax.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. xxiii. 846/2 They are good against a Gonorrhœa, Whites, Gleets, Weepings, &c.
1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 453 The mucous Particles and Steams arising from the Lungs, made a constant weeping of a thin slavery Liquor from the Mouth of the Pipe.
1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §28 The weepings of the lentiscus and cypress.
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 499 Vases, filled with Kishmee's golden wine, And the red weepings of the Shiraz vine.
1877 A. W. Bennett tr. O. W. Thomé Text-bk. Struct. & Physiol. Bot. ii. 48 A process on which depends, for example, the ‘weeping’ of wounded grape-vines.
1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. x. 118 Any weeping of the rivets or caulking which results, is rectified.
3. The drooping or downward sweep (of hair).
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > hanging down > drooping or hanging limply
droop1647
flagginess1654
drooping1816
droopiness1828
droopingness1864
weeping1869
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. viii. 90 The dark soft weeping of her hair.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein
middle veina1398
portaa1398
saphena1398
funisa1400
sciaticaa1400
guidesc1400
haemorrhoidc1400
salvatellac1400
liver veina1425
median?a1425
mesaraic?a1425
sciatic?a1425
venal artery?a1425
sciat1503
organal vein1523
axillar?1541
weeping vein1543
port-vein1586
lip-vein1598
nose vein1598
sciatic vein1598
cephalic vein1599
hollow vein1605
jugular1615
scapulary1615
subclavian vein1615
umbilical vessel1615
basilica1625
porter-vein1625
neck vein1639
garter-vein1656
matricious vein1656
sacred vein1656
subclavicular1656
subclavial1664
vertebral1718
portal vein1765
cava1809
satellite vein1809
brachial1859
innominate vein1866
precaval1866
postcava1882
precava1882
postcaval1891
Vesalian vein1891
sciatic1892
subcardinal1902
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > cause weeping
to ope the weeping vein1543
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > corner of eye > excrescence at
lacrimal?a1425
weeping-flesh1656
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. ii. iv. f. 257v/1 In the weping corners of the eyes, there groweth a fistula [etc.].
1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odyssey x. 519 I granted, went, and op't the weeping veine In all my men.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. i. 37 The Veines which we doe usually open are; First, the two Temple-Veines... Secondly, we open the two Eye or weeping-veins.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xvi. 278 First let him bloud in the necke and weeping veines.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 120 A Haw in the Eye..is discerned from the weeping flesh, because the roots of the Nail ever inclineth most to whitenesse.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 345 An Ulcer of the weeping flesh, namely an Ægylops.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
weeping-match n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xi. 117 They often assemble by concert for a general weeping-match.
weeping-scene n.
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1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada 285 Had I not previously been witness to a weeping-scene of this description, I should certainly have been apprehensive of some disastrous catastrophe.
C2. † weeping-dale n. Obsolete = ‘vale of tears’ (vale n.1 2b).† weeping-room n. Obsolete opportunity for weeping.† weeping-spot n. Obsolete a spot or stain where a tear has fallen.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > present life
worldeOE
this lifeOE
world-lifeOE
sithea1225
journey?c1225
pilgrimagec1384
weeping-dalec1400
valec1446
peregrinationc1475
scene1662
shades1816
earth life1842
macro-world1968
c1400 Pety Job 410 in 26 Pol. Poems 134 In thys wofull wepyng dale, I byde alwey.
weeping-hole n. an opening through which moisture percolates.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > percolation > [noun] > opening through which moisture percolates
weep-hole1851
weeping-hole1866
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 217/2 Holes are left through the wall called ‘weeping-holes’.
1903 C. Bald Indian Tea (1917) vii. 97 It is imperatively necessary to have weeping holes, to carry off any water which may get behind the building.
weeping-ripe adj. ready to weep.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready
i-radc888
yarec888
i-redec1000
i-redya1175
boundc1175
graith?c1225
aready1250
alreadyc1275
readyc1275
armedc1300
prestc1300
bentc1330
ripec1330
purveyed1435
mature?1440
apt1474
habile1485
in (a) case to (also for)1523
provided1533
in procinct1540
weeping-ripe1548
furnished1553
fit1569
preta1600
expedite1604
predy1613
procinct1618
foreprepared1642
presto1644
apparated1663
(ready) in one's gears1664
fallow1850
standby1893
organized1926
(to be) all set1949
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > ready to weep
weeping-ripe1548
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Lachrymabundus,..weepyng rype.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 173 What weeping ripe, my Lorde.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 274 The King was weeping ripe for a good word. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Valentinian i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaaaaaa3/1 Then as Souldiers..they tell their wounds Even weeping ripe they were no more nor deeper.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. N4v Behold him weeping ripe.
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?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 554 Ilion Shall finde thee weeping roomes enow.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot > made by tear
weeping-spotc1430
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 2370 The weping spottes in no wise Thei coude with noo craft gete a-way While thei had wesh it so many a day.
weeping-time n. a time when one weeps or may weep.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > time of weeping
weeping-timec1400
weeping-while1893
c1400 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (1907) 191 And of thise three wepynge tymes speketh holy writte.
weeping-while n. a time when one weeps or may weep.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > time of weeping
weeping-timec1400
weeping-while1893
1893 F. Thompson Poems 71 Smile, sweet baby, smile, For you will have weeping-while.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
weepingadj.
/ˈwiːpɪŋ/ 1. † b. absol. Persons weeping. Obsolete.
a. That weeps. Said of persons, also of the eyes.
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c1000 Ælfric Joshua vi. 21 Hi ofslogon..ða wepende cild.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6938 Þe quene was þo vorþ ilad mid moni a wepinde eye Of bissopes & of heyemen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 14023 Were þis mon prophete so good Þis wepynge wommon [Vesp. womman wepand] on him wood He auȝte to witen what she were.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 233 The gretnes of godhed was mekely hyd in the lytel body of a weping chylde.
1554 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 145 I bequeath to my nece Mary Gifford..my ringe with the wepinge eie.
1575 G. Gascoigne Maske Mountacute in Hundred Flowers 164 That so he might be shewed..Unto us all, whose weeping eyes dyd much abhorre the sight.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 47 I feare hee will prooue the weeping Phylosopher when hee growes old, beeing so full of vnmannerly sadnes in his youth. View more context for this quotation
1617 R. White Cupid's Banishm. in Nichols Progr. Jas. I (1828) III. 293 The Weeping Drunkard next.
1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour iv. iv. 48 More cruel then the Tyger o're his spoyl; And falser than the Weeping Crocodile.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 351 Turning to the Sea their weeping Eyes.
1706 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i Sadly attentive to the weeping Queen.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 252. ⁋3 There is something so moving in the very Image of weeping Beauty.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xxi. 101 A weeping eye indicates a gentle heart.
1757 T. Gray Ode I ii. i, in Odes 7 Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxv. 360 Edith looked down upon the weeping girl, and once kissed her.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxii. 277 He had taken leave of his weeping sweetheart.
1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 124 When men speak of Jeremiah, they think of him as the weeping prophet.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper
weeperc1380
beweepera1425
weeping1482
well1609
lachrymist1620
greeter17..
blubberer1786
blubber1832
crier1892
1482 Monk of Evesham 24 He..fulbitterly beganne to wepe and with rennyng terys sorofully sobbyd as wepyng doth [L. ut plorantes solent].
c. weeping monkey n. a name applied to the sapajous. Cf. weeper n. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Cebus (Capuchin)
sapajou1698
bewailer1774
sai1774
sajou1774
weeper1780
Capuchin monkey1785
weeping monkey1834
Cebus1863
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 48 Their name of Weeping Monkeys is derived from their plaintive voice.
2. Of the voice, the countenance: Tearful, lachrymose. Of utterances: Accompanied with weeping, tearful. Of emotion: Expressed by weeping.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective]
weepingc900
wopi?c1225
greetingfula1340
greetyc1350
weeplyc1374
weepfula1382
weepinglyc1440
lachrymablec1450
moistc1450
lachrymous1490
rainy1563
tearfula1586
greeting1588
collachrymate1593
crying1594
onion-eyeda1616
maudlinc1616
rheumatica1627
fluxed1628
lachrymalc1630
crystal-droppinga1650
showery1654
lugent1656
Niobean1665
lachrymary1693
lachrymose1727
moist-eyed1797
larmoyant1824
pluviose1824
ploratory1831
lachrymating1837
screwmatic1847
pipy1861
weepy1863
blarting1898
leaky1905
c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. i. xii Ða..onsendon hi ærendwrecan to Rome mid gewritum & wepindre bene [L. lacrimosis precibus].
c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) vi. 7 Forðam þe Drihten hyrde mine wependan stefne [L. vocem fletus mei].
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. vi. 20 He..with a wepynge voice [L. voce lacrimabili] criede vn to Danyel.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17947 Wiþ wepynge preyere.
c1400 26 Pol. Poems xi. 46 Repentaunce makeþ wepyng mon [= moan].
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer ii. sig. S.iii For vndoubtedlye it is not meete for a Gentlemanne to make weepinge and laughing faces.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. i. 32 Her words yclad with wisedomes Maiesty, Makes me from Wondring, fall to Weeping ioyes, Such is the Fulnesse of my hearts content. View more context for this quotation
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 457 Leauing me with a weeping good-night.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 17 Having taken a weeping leave of all the family.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 287 We behold him with weeping gratitude.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. ix. 216 Bards..bewailed them much, With doleful instruments of weeping song.
3. † a. weeping tears n. Obsolete abundant weeping. Rarely in singular.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > noisy or profuse weeping
weeping tearsa1470
blubbering1579
blubberation1812
blubber1825
boo-hooing1841
a1470 J. Hardyng Chron. cxl. x He shroue hym then vnto abbots three With great sobbyng and hye contricion, And wepyng teares.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 321v The troians toke the body of parys with wepyng teres, and bare hit vnto the cyte.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. iv. 40 Wyth sik plente of bittir wepand teris.
1560 Ld. Montague tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer sig. H1 With many sighes and aboundaunce of wepyng teares.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. K1v Many a dry drop seem'd a weeping teare, Shed for the slaughtred husband by the wife. View more context for this quotation
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. i. 7 This Message was receiv'd with weeping teares.
a1700 Tri. Patience in Halliw. Yorks. Anthol. (1851) 359 With weeping tears she did reply, My heart is overwhelm'd with grief.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Weeping-tears, a very odd pleonasm, but in very common use for excessive sorrow.
b. Falling or issuing in drops like tears. Now rare or Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > in drops or trickles
exstillatitious1657
weeping1686
trickling1791
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ii. 79 The Springs on, or near the tops of hills, if weak and weeping, may proceed from rains.
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 2 Let India boast her Plants, nor envy we The weeping Amber or the balmy Tree.
1735 J. Price Some Considerations Stone-bridge Thames 6 To empty out the weeping Water and Springs.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Lucern Except it be obstructed by a stratum of rock, or chilled at root by weeping springs.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 200 Tho' poets..talked and sung Of brooks, and crystal founts, and weeping dews.
1831 W. Wordsworth On Departure Sir W. Scott 1 A trouble, not of clouds, or weeping rain..Engendered.
4. Exuding moisture:
a. Of soil: Oozing, swampy.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > soft or yielding > through excess water
weta900
clammy1530
waterish1540
weeping1577
spongy1652
stagnant1850
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 17v Yf it be wette or weepyng ground, or subiect vnto other inconueniences.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K2 A riuer..Vpon whose weeping margent she was set.
1625 G. Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 9 The Haisell ground being dry, and not subiect to Winter-springs, or teares of water (for which some call such, A whining or weeping ground) is to be handled thus.
1625 G. Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 19 A sandy and grauelly ground that is wet and weeping.
1644 G. Plattes in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 216 The last Experiment, shewing how weeping land may be drained where there is no level.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1676 (1955) IV. 92 The mould a cold weeping clay, not answering the expense.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 33 Ray-Grass..is reckoned to grow on any Land, but chiefly in Cold sour Clays, and weeping Grounds.
1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 409 Upon poor, weak, weeping clays, where..the dung is locked up,..the application of lime is equally salutary.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 40 The shaley rock, covered with a grey loam of a moderate staple, and producing a very wet and weeping surface.
1816 Trial Berkeley Poachers 30 There I could see, for there was a wet or weeping place, the tracks of sixteen men.
b. Pathology. Of the eyes: Running, watering. Also of diseased tissues or structures from which moisture exudes. weeping eczema, a variety of eczema characterized by abundant exudation.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > discharging
weeping1566
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > watery or gummy
waterya1398
watering1447
watered?c1450
vapoureda1542
waterish1561
weeping1566
gummy1580
liquid1598
swimming1703
gravy-eyed1785
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > eczema
eczema1753
grocers' itch1799
washerwoman's itch1844
Paget's disease1880
cradle cap1890
weeping eczema1899
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 23, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Of weping or watering eyes.
1810 Sporting Mag. 35 140 It appeared that at the time of sale the horse had weeping eyes.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 503 A general raw, red, weeping surface is produced.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 608 Squamous or weeping eczema.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 749 The epidermis is exfoliated..leaving the skin underneath red and tender but never moist or weeping as in eczema.
c. In general use.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of exuding > [adjective] > exuding
siping1398
oozya1425
weeping1551
sweating1578
sweaty1600
weepy1825
exuding1849
oozing1878
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > emitting > emitting by exudation
oozya1425
weeping1551
sweating1578
sudorific1828
oozing1878
1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxxv I could here shewe ye wonders of weping roodes, and sweatynge ladyes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 68 The yawning Earth disclos'd th' Abyss of Hell: The weeping Statues did the Wars foretel. View more context for this quotation
1710 D. Hilman Tusser Redivivus Apr. 7 His Bark clean without fungi or Toad-stools, no weeping holes or decayed Boughs upon him.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 283 Oozing springs,..weeping rocks.
1903 E. Childers Riddle of Sands ix. 92 I returned, with a shock, to the present, to the weeping walls, the discoloured deal table, the ghastly breakfast litter.
d. †weeping bower, the name given in Barbados to a tree that exudes a gum of some kind. weeping gum, the name of two species of Eucalyptus, E. pauciflora and E. viminalis (Morris Austral Engl. s.v. Gum).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > other South American gum trees
muskwood1696
weeping bower1696
wax-tree1843
resin plant1846
carnauba1854
1696 L. Plukenet Almagestum in Wks. (1769) II. 43 Arbor..Scenam topiariam efformans Lachrymifera, fortè Stacteflua, s. Myrrham liquidam fundens... Nostratibus Colonis Weeping Bower nuncupata.
5. Of climate, weather, skies, etc.: Dripping, rainy.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [adjective] > wet (of weather, place, or time) > rainy
rainyOE
rainyOE
rainingc1400
droppinga1415
pluvious?1440
rainful1484
weeping1600
droppy1635
slattering1648
dripping1699
drippy1818
softish1855
feechie1975
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. iii. 61 A naked subiect to the weeping clowdes. View more context for this quotation
1668 J. Denham Poems 73 All on a weeping Monday..Little Admiral John To Bologne is gone.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 44 This country would be a perfect paradise, if it was not, like Wales, cursed with a weeping climate.
a1821 J. Keats Otho v. v, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 195 Gauzes of silver mist, Loop'd up with cords of twisted wreathed light, And tassell'd round with weeping meteors!
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 66 The inconveniences arising from a cold soil and a weeping climate.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 981 In a weeping season, the hay on one property was effectually saved by the use of the tedding-machine.
1846 A. Marsh Father Darcy xxxviii It was a weeping day—a cold, cloudy day, at the very beginning of September.
1884 A. S. Swan Carlowrie ii. 30 The rain still falling desolately from weeping skies.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 64 The weeping fog rolled fold on fold the wrath of man to cloak.
6. Used to designate trees (less frequently other plants) the branches of which arch over and hang down drooping. Chiefly in the distinctive names of particular species or varieties. [So French pleureur in saule pleureur weeping willow, frêne pleureur weeping ash.] weeping oak, the Californian white oak, Quercus lobata; also, a cultivated variety of the English oak, Quercus robur. The weeping ash, weeping beech, weeping birch, weeping elm, etc. are varieties of certain species of those trees; in botanical works they are designated by the addition of pendula after the specific name. See also weeping willow n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > beech or beeches > [noun]
American beecha800
beecha800
beech-treec1450
weeping beech1606
red beech1789
southern beech1839
copper-beech1846
mastwort1846
red beech1882
Negrohead beech1884
stone-beech1884
mountain beech1886
Nothofagus1896
Southland beech1918
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun]
bircha700
birch-tree1530
weeping birch1606
Our Lady's tree1608
black birch1674
sugar-birch1751
white birch1766
red birch1774
yellow birch1774
paper birch1791
canoe birch1810
mountain mahogany1810
old field birch1810
mahogany birch1813
towai1845
river birch1846
kamahi1867
silver birch1884
wire birch1899
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > elms > [noun]
wycheOE
elmc1000
ulm-treec1000
witch hazela1400
all-heart1567
ulme1567
white elm1580
wych elm1582
witchen1594
weeping elm1606
trench-elm1676
smooth-leaved elm1731
witch elm1731
water elm1733
slippery elm1748
Scotch elm1769
wahoo1770
American elm1771
red elm1805
witches' elm1808
moose elm1810
cork-elm1813
rock elm1817
swamp elm1817
planer tree1819
Jersey elm1838
winged elm1858
sand elm1878
Exeter-elm1882
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [adjective] > drooping or weeping
weeping1606
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun]
ashc700
fraynec1325
wood-browna1400
wild ash1552
white ash1578
manna tree1665
black ash1673
white ash1683
water ash1709
manna ash1715
hoop-ash1763
red ash1773
shrew-ash1776
blue ash1783
swamp ash1794
weeping ash1807
green ash1810
cockscomb ash1850
Oregon ash1857
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks
red oakOE
cerre-tree1577
gall-tree1597
robur1601
kermes1605
live oak1610
white oak1610
royal oak1616
swamp-oak1683
grey oak1697
rock oak1699
chestnut oak1703
water oak1709
Spanish oak1716
turkey-oak1717
willow oak1717
iron oak1724
maiden oak1725
scarlet oak1738
black jack1765
post oak1775
durmast1791
mountain chestnut oak1801
quercitron oak1803
laurel oak1810
mossy-cup oak1810
rock chestnut oak1810
pin oak1812
overcup oak1814
overcup white oak1814
bur oak1815
jack oak1816
mountain oak1818
shingle-oak1818
gall-oak1835
peach oak1835
golden oak1838
weeping oak1838
Aleppo oak1845
Italian oak1858
dyer's oak1861
Gambel's Oak1878
maul oak1884
punk oak1884
sessile oak1906
Garry oak1908
roble1908
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. F4v The weeping Elme, the Beech, the Byrch.
1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 41 There is another variety also of this tree, called the weeping elm.
1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 66 Of the white birch there is a..variety, sometimes called the lady-birch, or the weeping-birch.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 61 The weeping variety of the Common Ash.
1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. from South & West 62 The weeping-cherry..bears blossoms when a part of the fruit is ripe.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum II. 1214 Fraxinus pendula... The pendulous, or weeping Ash.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum III. 1691 Betula pendula..the weeping Birch.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum III. 1732 Quercus pendula..the Weeping Oak.
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum III. 1952 Fagus pendula..the weeping Beech.
1849 Florist 273 Among weeping trees, we found the weeping purple Beech, the weeping Holly, the new weeping Elm,..the weeping Yew, the weeping Oak, weeping silver Fir, and weeping red Cedar.
1859 D. Bunce Trav. with Dr. Leichhardt 91 Many species of Acacia made their appearance, including the celebrated Weeping Myall.
1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 343 The..rhizome of Goniophlebium dissimile..allows to droop on every side its long, weeping fronds.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 202 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Weeping and drooping trees.
1869 S. R. Hole Bk. Roses viii. 124 They may soon be trained into Weeping Roses.
1882 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. iii. 436 At the upper end stands..a purple beech, and a weeping elm, there being weeping ashes elsewhere.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 363 ‘Weeping’, or ‘True myall’... Called ‘Boree’ by aboriginals, and often ‘Boree’, or ‘Silver-leaf Boree’, by the colonists of Western New South Wales.
1895 C. J. Cornish Wild Eng. Today 92 On the shaded bank, a line of weeping-birches dips into the pool.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 171 Rice Grass, Meadow, Microtæna stipoides. Called also Weeping Grass.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 506 Weeping-Myall, an Australian tree, Acacia pendula. Cunn.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 1825/2 Newly planted bush and standard (not weeping) roses should be pruned back.
1969 Better Homes & Gardens Apr. 83/1 Weeping cherry. Bright pink blossoms are artistically spaced along the gracefully hanging branches.
7. weeping Polly n. Australia see quot. 1886.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > meadow grass
meadow grass1597
silver grass1600
lovegrass1702
spear-grass1747
bluegrass1751
wiregrass1751
poa1753
poa grass1759
Suffolk grass1759
fowl-meadow-grass1774
penguin grass1776
mead grass1778
June grass1840
weeping Polly1880
1880 J. Bonwick Resources Queensland 45 The Poa brownii is good in all seasons; the P. cespitosa [sic], or Weeping Polly grass, though tufty, is sweet and indicates good soil.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 174/1 The native [Queensland] grasses are nearly a hundred in number..the weeping Polly is Poa cæspitosa.
1981 E. Rolls Million Wild Acres 28 The best grass, the tall sparse-seeded Oat Grass..all but disappeared. So did Poa caespitosa, the Weeping Polly Grass of rich damp places.
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