weeping

a. 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. “Weeping eyes.” I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. “Weeping grounds.” Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a variety of European beech (Fagus pendula, Fagus sylvatica pendula) with pendulous limbs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a perennial South African grass (Eragrostis curvula) having densly clumped flimsy stems; introduced into U.S. esp. for erosion control.
Syn. -- African love grass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a weeping manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon (Picea breweriana) having pendulous branches.
Syn. -- Brewer's spruce. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (a) Any tree having pendulous branches. (b) A tree from which honeydew or other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp. one infested by the larvae of any species of the genus Ptylus, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical countries secrete large quantities of a watery fluid. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a small shrubby tree of New Zealand having weeping branches and racemes of white to violet flowers followed by woolly indehiscent 2-seeded pods.
a broom is any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]