Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WEEK'LY, a.

Coming, happening or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment of bills; a weekly gazette; a weekly allowance. – Dryden. Swift.

WEEK'LY, adv.

Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly. – Ayliffe.

WEEL, or WEEL'Y, n.

A kind of twiggen trap or snare for fish. – Carew.

WEEL, n. [See Well. Sax. wæl, from weallan, to boil.]

A whirlpool. [Not in use.]

WEEN, v.i. [Sax. wenan, to think, suppose or hope, and to wean. The sense is to set, fix or hold in the mind; G. wühnen, to imagine; D. waanen.]

To think; to imagine; to fancy. – Spenser. Milton. [Obsolete, except in burlesque.]

WEEN'ING, ppr.

Thinking; imagining. [Obs.]

WEEP, v.i. [pret. 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.]

1. 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.
2. To shed tears from any passion. Persons sometimes weep for joy.
3. 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 gum 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, n.

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. ειδω.]

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, n.¹ [from weave.]

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

WEFT, n.²

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

WEFT, v. [old pret. of Wave. Spenser.]