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158 words match “WEEP”

WEEP n. 9 definitions

imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.

WEEPER n. 3 definitions

One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.

Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. [Obs.] Wyclif.

WEEPING n. 5 definitions

The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.

WEEPING TREE n. 2 definitions

Any tree having pendulous branches.

WEEPING-RIPE a.

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

In a weeping manner.

BEWEEP v. 2 definitions

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. [R.] Thomson.

To weep much. [Obs.]

To exceed in weeping.

PEASWEEP n. 2 definitions

The pewit, or lapwing.

SWEEP v. 25 definitions

irt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively. I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23.

The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.

rce; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation. -- Sweep"ing*ly, adv. -Sweep"ing*ness, n.

Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

SWEEPSTAKE n. 2 definitions

A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

SWEEPSTAKES n. 4 definitions

A winning of all the stakes or prizes; a sweepstake.