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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.

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.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

A brush of twigs for sweeping; a broom; anything which sweeps away or destroys. [Archaic or Fig.] I will sweep it with the besom of destruction. Isa. xiv. 23. The housemaid with her besom. W. Irving.

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

Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. [Obs.]

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears. Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face! Prior.

The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.

nt of emotion; as, to say a few broken words at parting. Amidst the broken words and loud weeping of those grave senators. Macaulay. Broken ground. (a) (Mil.) Rough or uneven ground; as, the troops were retarded in their advance by broken ground. (b) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the st…

An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their bl…

en to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

snake. See Diamond snake, under Diamond. -- Carpet sweeper, an apparatus or device for sweeping carpets. -- To be on the carpet, to be under consideration; to be the subject of deliberation; to be in sight; -- an expression derived from the use of carpets as table cover. -- Brussels carpet. See under Brussels.…

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.

An event; a fact; a particular incident. The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in histery. Addison.