Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WEEN-ING, ppr.

Thinking; imagining. [Obs.]

WEEP, v.i. pret.

1. and pp. wept. weeped, I believe, is never used. [Sax. wepan; evidently the same word as whoop. See Whoop. The primary sense is to cry out.]
2. To express sorrow, grief or anguish by outcry. This the original sense. But in present usage, to manifest and express grief by outcry or by shedding tears. They all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him. Acts xx. Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh. Milford.
3. To shed tears from any passion. Persons sometimes weep for joy.
4. To lament; to complain. Numb. xi.

WEEP, v.t.

1. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. We wand'ring go Through dreary wastes, and weep each other's woe. Pope.
2. To shed moisture; as, to weep tears of joy. Groves whose rich trees wept od'rous guns and balm. Milton.
3. To drop; as, the weeping amber. Pope.
4. To abound with wet; as, weeping grounds. Mortimer.

WEEP-ED, pp.

Lamented; bewailed; shed tears.

WEEP-ER, n.

1. One who weeps; one who sheds tears. Dryden.
2. A white border on the sleeve of a mourning coat. Johnson.
3. A species of monkey, the Simia Capucina. Cyc.

WEEP-ING, n.

Lamentation.

WEEP-ING, ppr.

Lamenting; shedding tears.

WEEP-ING-LY, adv.

In a weeping manner.

WEEP-ING-ROCK, n. [weep and rock.]

A porous rock from which water gradually issues.

WEEP-ING-SPRING, a.

A spring that slowly discharges water.

WEEP-ING-WIL-LOW, n.

A species of willow, whose I branches grow very long and slender, and hang down nearly in a perpendicular direction.

WEER-ISH, a.

Insipid; weak; washy; surly. [Not in use.] Ascham.

WEE'SEL,

the more proper spelling of Weasel.

WEET, v.i. pret.

wot. [Sax. witan; D. weeten; Sw. veta; G. wissen; Russ. vidayu; allied probably to L. video, Gr. {foreign}.] To know. [Obs.]

WEET-LESS, a.

Unknowing. [Obs.]

WEE'VER, n.

A fish, called also sea-dragon; a species of Trachinus. [See Weaver-fish.]

WEE'VIL, n. [Sax. wefl; G. wibel.]

A small insect that does great damage to wheat or other corn, by eating into the grains and devouring the farinaceous part. Cyc.

WEFT,

old pret. of Wave. Spenser.

WEFT, n. [from weave.]

1. The woof of cloth; the threads that cross the warp.
2. A web; a thing woven. Cyc.

WEFT, n.

A thing waved, waived, or cast away. [Not used. See Waif.]

WEFT'AGE, n.

Texture. [Not used] Grew.

WEIGH, n.

A certain quantity. A weigh of wool, cheese, &c., is 256 pounds avoirdupois; a weigh of corn is forty bushels; of barley or malt, six quarters. Encyc. Cyc.

WEIGH, v.i.

1. To have weight; as, to weigh lighter or heavier. Brown.
2. To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance. This argument weighs with the considerate part of the community.
3. To bear heavily; to press hard. Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart. Shak. To weigh down, to sink by its own weight.

WEIGH, v.t. [Sax. waeg, weg, a balance; waegan, to weigh, to bear, to carry, L. veho; D. weegen, wikken; G. wögen; Sw. väga; Dan. vejer, to weigh; Russ. vaga, a balance; Amharic {foreign}, awaki, weight. See Wag.]

1. To examine by the balance; to ascertain the weight, that; is, the force with which a thing tends to the center of gravity; as, to weigh sugar; to weigh gold.
2. To be equivalent to in weight; that is, according to the Saxon sense of the verb, to lift to an equipoise a weight on the other side of the fulcrum. Thus when a body balances a weight of twenty-eight pounds avoirdupois, it lifts or bears it, and is said to weigh so much. It weighs a quarter of a hundred.
3. To raise; to lift; as an anchor from the ground, or any other body; as, to weigh anchor; to weigh an old hulk.
4. To pay, allot or take by weight. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. Zech. xi.
5. To ponder in the mind; to consider or examine for the purpose of forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion; as, to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of a scheme. Regard not who it is which speaketh, but weigh only what is spoken. Hooker.
6. To compare by the scales. Here in nice balance truth with gold she weighs. Pope.
7. To regard; to consider as worthy of notice. I weigh not you. Shak.
8. To weigh down, to overbalance.
9. To oppress with weight; to depress.

WEIGH-A-BLE, a.

That may be weighed.