week 
Sabbath or Cfreat Saturday has been a name for Easter 
eve since very early times in Iwtli East anti West.— Holy 
Week, in the ecclesiastical year, the week imnuiliately 
preceding Easter Sunilay : sometimes also called Passion 
"'eat.— Bllserere week. See i/ii.>va/.'. — New week. 
See «*«•.— Parson's week, .-iee ;'.rr5..n.— passion Week. 
See piwwon.— Procession week, Rogation week. See 
rogation.— The feast Of Weeks, a Jewish festival lasting 
•even weeks — that is, a "week of weeks " after the Pass- 
over. It corres|)onds to Pentecost or Wliitsnntide. See 
PenteoMit, 1. — This (that) day week. See dayl. 
This day-week you will be alone. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, xxvl. 
Week about. See about. — Week's day, that day of last 
week or of next week which corresponds to tlie present 
day. 
I mene if God please to be at Salisburie the wekesdaie 
at night before Easterdaie ; where for divers respectes I 
would gla<IIie speake wth you. 
Darretl Papers aaa2)(U. Hall, Society in Elizabethan Age). 
week-t, «. An obsolete form of icickl. 
week-' (wek). II. [Se. also weik; wick; a var. of 
iriifi.] A corner; an angle: as, the xceeks of 
the mouth or the eye. 
The men of the world say we will sell the truth ; we 
will let them ken that we will hing by the mcks of the 
mouth for the least point of truth. 
M. Bruce, Soul-Conflrmation, p. 18. (Jamieson.) 
week-day (wek'da), n. [E. dial, u-eckyrlai/ ; < 
ME. 'wekedaij, < AS. wicdsey, aucdsin = leel. 
vikudagr; as week^ + thty^.] Any day of the 
week except Sunday: often used adjectively. 
She loues Preaching better then Praying, and of Preach- 
ers Lecturers, and thinkes the IKecite.doyes E.\ereise farre 
mure edifying then the Sundaies. 
Bp. EarU, Micro-cosmographie, A Shee precise Hypocrite. 
One solid dish his iceek-day meal affords, 
Au adiled pudding solemnised the Lord's. 
Pope, Moral Essays, iii. 346. 
jFor dinner — which on a itvekdai/ is hardly ever eaten at 
the costefmonger's alMxte — they buy '* block ornaments," 
as they call the small, dark-coloured pieces of meat ex- 
posed on the cheap butchers* bhKiksor counters. 
Mat/hew, L<jndon Labcuir and J<ondoii Poor, L G'2. 
weekly (wek'li), «. and «. [< wcek^ + -///l.] 
I. «. 1. Of, pertaining to, or lasting for a week ; 
reckoned by the week; produced orpcrforme(l 
between one Sunday and the next : as, werklij 
work. — 2. Coming, happening, or done once a 
week: as, a weekly payment; a weekly paper; a 
Keekly allowance; the weekly sailings of steam- 
ers; a weekly mail. 
When yonder broken arch was whole, 
'Twas there was dealt the weekly dole. 
Scikl, Rokeby, vi. 1. 
H. «.; pi. weeklies (-liz). A periodical, as a 
newsiiaper, apj>earing once a week. 
weekly (wek'li), ailr. [< weekly, «.] Once a 
week; at intervals of seven days: as, a paper 
published weekly; wages paid weekly. 
week-work (wek'wcrk), ». in old ICiKj. umye, 
the distinctive service of a serf or villein, being 
a specified number of days, u.sually three, in 
eacn week, 
weel't (wel), M. [E. dial, also wed, wiel, also 
tcale; < ME. weel, wele, wel, < AS. wiel = MD. 
wael, a whirlpool, = MLG. »rf/, a pool.] A 
whirlpool. 
Weel^ (wel), H. [Also we/il ; cf. willy, a willow 
basket. < willy, a var. of trillmr : see iri7/((ifl.] 
1. A kind of trap or snare for fish. [(Obsolete 
or provinci(>l.] 
Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, 
veelet, tmits, angling. Burton, Anat of Mel., p. 3111. 
Diug. f.aert. tells ns that it was a saying of Socrates that 
young batchelers desirous of marriage were like to flslies 
who play atM^iit the weele, and gladly would get in, when 
on the contrary they that are within strive how tliey should 
get out. heyipttod, Anna and PhilIiB(Wfirks, ed. 
(Pearson, 1874, VI, 810). 
In our river Ishnia eel-p<mts were cauglit as well as cru- 
cians and rrawflsli ; the last tumbled of themselves in the 
voeeU set for tliem, or into ordinary baskets. 
Uarperg Mai)., IJC.XVIII. 379. 
2. In her,, a bearing representing a kind of eel- 
pot or fish-pot, composed of strips or slats with 
open spaces between. Sometimes the number 
of these slats is mentioned in the blazon. 
WeeP (wel), adv. and a. A Scotch form of 
well^. 
weem (wem), «. [Cf. Gael, uamlia, a cave.] An 
earth-house; an artificial cave or subterranean 
building. [Scotch.] 
Weent (wen), «. [< Mf]. weiie, wen, < AS. wen, 
(., weiKi, m., hope, weening, expectation, = OS. 
M)«n = OFries. wi'n, hope, = D. wtiiiii, opinion. 
conjecture, = OH(i. MUG. wdii, G. waliii, illu- 
sion, false hope, = Icel. ran, expectation, = 
Goth, ireiifi, expectation ; from the root of win : 
see trin.] Doubt; conjecture. 
1 wol ben here, withonten any wene. 
Chaucer, 'I'roilus, iv. 1693 
6869 
For lyf and deth, withouten icene. 
Is in Ids hande. Jtom. of the Rose, 1. 469«. 
ween (wen), v. [< ME. wenen, < AS. u-eiian (pret. 
wende. pp. weiide, wente), hope, expect, imagine, 
= OS. wdnian = OFries. weiia = D. wanen, think, 
fancy, = LG. wanen, fancy, = OHG. wiman, wan- 
nan, MHG. wsenen, G. waliiieii = Icel. rdna, hope 
(cf . Sw. rdntii = Dan. ventc), = Goth, wenjan, ex- 
pect; from the noun.] To be of opinion; have 
the notion ; think ; imagine ; suppose. [Ar- 
chaic] 
And whan tliei wil flghte, tliei wille schokken hem to 
gidre in a plomp, that, zif there lie 20000 men, men sclialle 
not wenen that there be scant 10000. 
Mandeeille, Travels, p. 262. 
But trewely I wende, as in this cas, 
Kaught have agilt, ne doon to love trespas. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 462. 
Prosperitie . . . may be discontinued by moe waies 
than you would afore haue ivent. 
Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1673), fol. 34. 
Earle Robert would needes set forward, weening to get 
all tlie glory to hiniselfe before tlie coniniing of the hoste. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 36. 
Ye ween to hear a melting tiile 
Of two trtie lovers in a dale. 
Scott, L. of L. M., ii. 29. 
Though never a dream the x'oses sent 
Of science or love's compliment, 
I leeen they smelt as sweet. 
Mrs. Browning, Deserted Garden. 
weenong-tree (we'nong-tre), n. See Tetra- 
mele.s. 
weepl (wep), r.; pret. and pp. wept, ppr. weep- 
ing. [< ME. wejien, toenpen (pret. weep, wep, 
wenj), wiep, wip, pi. wepen, wepe, wopen, later 
weptc), weep, wail, shed tears, < AS. teepan 
(pret. weop). cry aloud, wail, = OS. wOpian, cry 
aloud, = OFries. wepa = OHG. wiiofaii, wuofjan 
weepmg-cross 
II. trans. 1. To lament; bewail; bemoan. 
Pensive she sat, revolving fates to come, 
And wept her godlike son's approaching doom. 
Po^ie, Iliad, xxiv. 114. 
Xor is it 
Wiser to weep a true occasion lost. 
But trim our sails, and let old bygones )>e. 
Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
To weep his oliscquics. Dryden, Mneu\, ix. 648. 
2. To shed or let fall drop by drop, as tears; 
give out in drops. 
Sithen thou hast wepen [var. wopen] many a drope. 
Chaucer, Troilus, i. 941. 
Sir Gawein that therof hadde grete pite hit toke with 
gladde cbere and myri, and wepte right tendirly water 
with his iyen vndir his helme. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 477. 
Weep your tears 
Into the channel. Shak., J. C, i. 1. 03. 
Groves wliose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 248. 
3. To spend or consume in weeping; exhaust 
in tears: usually followed by away, out, or the 
like. 
Weep my life away. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
I could weep 
My spirit from mine eyes. Shak., J. C, iv. 3. 99. 
To weep millstonest. See millstone. 
weepi (wep), II. [< ME. wepe, we]), a later form, 
after the verb, of wop, < AS. inip, clamor, cry : 
see weep^, v.] If. Weeping; a fit of weeping. 
She l>ogan to brestc a wepe anon. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 408. 
Wid reweli lote, and sorwe, and wep. 
Genesi.^ and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2328. 
2. Exudation ; sweat, as of a gum-tree ; a leak, 
as in the joint of a pipe. [Obsolete, colloq., or 
trade use.] 
Same as peweep for 
wepa 
(pret. tciof), MHG. wuofeii, wiiefen = IceX.'wpa weep-t « "' [Imitative ] 
(pret. apta), cry, shout, = Goth, wojijan (pret. /,(,„•/(. ' Also wijpe, wipe. 
wopida), cry out, ^veep ; Irom a noun, AS. wup, weepablet ( we'pa-bl), a. [Earlv mod. E. wepe- 
clamor, outcry, = Ob. wop = OHG. wiiof, wiiaj, ^ble ; < weep"^ + "-able.] Exeitin'g or moving to 
outcry, lament, = Icel. op, a shout; cf. Kuss. 
i-opite, sob, wail, lament. Not connected with 
E. whnup, which is prop, hoop.] I. intraiis. 1. 
To express sorrow, grief, or anguisli by outcry ; 
wail; lament; in more modern usage, to shed 
tears. 
Thei of the Contree seyn that Adam and Eve weptcn 
upon that Mount an lOO Zeer, whan thei weren dryveii 
out of I'aradys. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 199. 
In al tills world ther nis so cruwel hertc . . . 
That nolde have wopen for hire peynes sinelte ; 
S*j tenderly she wepte both eve and morwc. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 724. 
To whom he sayde, "Wepe- ye not vpon me, ye doiigh- 
ters of Jlierusalcm, but wepe ye vpon your self and vpon 
your children. " Sir It. Guyl/irrde, Pylgrymage, p. 28. 
They all uvpt sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed 
him. Acts XX. 37. 
Then they for sudden joy did weep. 
Shak., Lear, i. 4 191 (song). 
The Indian elephant is known sometimes to weep. 
Darwin, Express, of Emotions, p. 107. 
2. To drop or flow as tears. 
The blood weeps fiYim my heart. 
Sliak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. .68. 
3. To let fall drops; drop water; drip; hence, 
to rain. 
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'citlow? 
Shak., Tit. And., iii. 1. 222. 
4. To give out moisture; be very damp. 
CI ayes wepe 
Uncertainly, whoos teres beth riglit swete. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 173. 
It is a delicious place for prospect and ye thickctts, lint 
the soile cold and weeinng clay. 
Eiielyn, Diary, Feb. 17, 1002. 
6. To have di'ooping branches; be pendent; 
droop : as, a irec/iinf/ tree ; the weeping willow. 
— To weep Irigh, to express or affect synipatlietic grief 
by wailing and sliedding tears ; keen. 
Hiirely the Egyptians did not weep-Irish with faigned 
and mercenary tears. 
Fuller, Pisg.ah Sight, II. xii. 15. {Davies.) 
Wee^lnif ash, the variety 2)endula of the European asli, 
Fraxinus excelsior, having the branches arching down- 
ward instead of upward. — Weeping birch, a variety of 
the white birch, Betula alba, of a weeping haliit, conunon 
in Europe, and often cultivated for ornament. Its shoots 
when young are quite smooth, but when mature al'c of a 
bright chestnut-brown, covered with little white warts. 
tears; lamentable; grievous. Jip. I'ecock. 
weeper (we'per), H. [< mc/*! -t- -o-l.] 1. One 
who weeps; one who sheds tears; specifieallj', 
a hired inourncr at a I'uiiei'al. 
If yon have served God in a holy life, send away the 
women and the weepers ; tell tlieni it is as mucli intem- 
perance t<i weep too much as to laugh too much. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. 6. 
Laughing is easy, lint the wonder lies 
What store of liriiie siliiplied the weeper's eyes. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, x. 40. 
2. Something worn conventionally as a badge 
of mourning, (a) A strip of white linen or muslin 
worn on the end of tiie sleeve like a cutf. The term is 
also used for the band of crape worn as a mark of mourn- 
ing. 
Our. . . mourners clap iiits of muslin on their sleeves, 
and these are called weepers. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the Woi-ld, xcvi. 
Thei-e was not a widow in all the country who went to 
such an expense for black bombazine. She had lier 
beautiful hair conllned in crimped cajis, and her weepers 
came over her elliows. Thackeray, Blueljeard's (ihost. 
(/>) A long hatb.'ind, like a scarf, of crai>e or otlier black 
stuif, worn by men at a funeral. 
It is a funereal street, Old Parr Street, certainly ; the 
carriages whicli drive there ouglit to have feathers on the 
roof, and the butlers who open tlie doors should we.ir 
weepers. Thackeray, Pliilip, ii. 
(e) The long black crape veil worn by a widow in her 
weeds. 
Most thankful I shalJ be to see yon with a couple o' 
pounds' woi'th less of <;rape. ... If anyliody was to marry 
me tlattering himself I should wear these hijeous weepers 
two years for him, he'd lie deceived by liis own vanity, 
tliat's all. George Eliot, Middlemareb, Ixxx. 
3. Anything resembling 
1 and 'J in shape or use. 
The firs were hung with weepers of black-green moss. 
/;. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 169. 
The eyes with which itithe aqueduct tunnell weeps are 
rightly called iceejiers, being small rectangular openings 
in the side walls, through wliich all the water collected 
and collecting on the outside of the masonry jiours into 
the inside. New York Tritntne, Feliruary 2, 1890. 
4. The South American capuchin monkey, 
('elms rapticinns. 
weepfult(wep'ful),«. [<weep'^,v., + -ful.'] Full 
of \vc(']iing; motirnful. Il'i/elif. 
a weeper m senses 
Weeping eczema, eczema attended with considerable weeping (vve'ping), «. [<.'MV..wipiii<ie,tcepnnae; 
t"rtnl:ttii,tt • Till li at fi'7i;ii', TITaartivior trr-riaa „ in-oeo XI i\ T , „ -, ->tj'-,' ,' , , • 
Wailmg; lamentation; 
exudation ; moist eczema. — Weeping grass, a grass. Mi 
croliena (Ehrharta) slipoides, of Australia and New Zea- 
land, so called doubtless from the form of its panicle. It 
is a perennial grass, keeping green through the year, and 
valued for grazing. Mueller, Select Extra-trop. Plants. 
— Weeping oak. See oa*— Weeping pipe, a small 
pipe connected witli a tank or water-closet sniiply-pipc, 
and designed to allow a little water to escape at inter 
vals so 1)8 to preserve the seal in traps. 
lar. See jwp/ar.— Weeping rock, 
whichwateroozes.— Weeping sinew, a gai.i^.,,,B". ■.111. ■ 1 I- 1 -i ,. , ,■ 
in the synovial sheath of a tendon; ganglion.- Weeping ""^yi at winch penitential devotions were per 
willow. See wiilowi. formed 
vertial ii. of weep'^, c] 
shedding of tears. 
With myche wepywi (fe woo tlies wordes ho said. 
Destruction!'/ Troy (E. E. T. S.), I. 8489. 
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
Mat. viii. 12. 
raps.— Weeping pop- weeping-crosS (we'iiing-ki-As). n. A cross, of- 
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