单词 | weeping |
释义 | weepingn. The action of the verb in the various senses; an instance of this. 1. a. The expression or manifestation of sorrow, pain, etc. by shedding tears. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xi. 117 They often assemble by concert for a general weeping-match. weeping-scene n. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 554 Ilion Shall finde thee weeping roomes enow. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. a. That weeps. Said of persons, also of the eyes. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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