Dictionary entry

Weep (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.