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Weeping spring

Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.

  1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. ``Weeping eyes.''
    --I. Watts.

  2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. ``Weeping grounds.''
    --Mortimer.

  3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash.

  4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.

    Weeping cross, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence.

    Weeping rock, a porous rock from which water gradually issues.

    Weeping sinew, a ganglion. See Ganglion, n., 2. [Colloq.]

    Weeping spring, a spring that discharges water slowly.