weeping : Idioms & Phrases
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.
Webster 1913
Weeping rock
- a porous rock from which water gradually issues.
Webster 1913
Weeping sinew
- a ganglion. See
Ganglion , n., 2. Colloq.
Webster 1913
Weeping spring
- a spring that discharges water slowly.
Webster 1913
Weeping willow
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noun willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental
Babylonian weeping willow; Salix babylonica.
WordNet
(Bot.) , a species of willow (Salix Babylonica ) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly.
