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Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." I. Watts.

Any tree having pendulous branches.

Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] Shak.

In a weeping manner.

Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. [Colloq.]

a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for…

A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

g-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

ortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Precipitously. Abruptly pinnate (Bot.), pinnate without an odd leaflet, or other appendage, at the end. Gray.

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. [R.] Quincy.

Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away. He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.

sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

ian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.