weeping-cross 
One is a kind of weeping-crogg, Jack, 
A gentle purgatory. 
Fletcher and Shirlty, Siglit- Walker, i. 1. 
For liere I mourn for your, our publike losse. 
And doe my peniiance at the wa'piiig-crvuse. 
Wither, Prince Henry's Obsequies. 
To return or come home by weeplng-croBst, to suffer 
defeat in some adventure ; meet witll repulse or failure ; 
hence, to repent of having taken a certain course or en- 
gaged in a certain undertaking. 
The judgement stands, onely this verdit too: 
Had you before the law foreseen the losse, 
You had not now com£ home by wceping-croBse. 
Heyuvod, If you Know not me (Works, ed. 1874, I. 267). 
But the time will come when, comming hmne by Weep- 
ing-Crosse, thou shalt confesse that it was better to be at 
home. Lyly, Euphues and his England. 
weepingly (we'ping-li), adr. [< wcephig + -/(/2.] 
With weeping ; in tears. 
She took her son into her arms weepingly laughing. 
Sir IL Wotton, Reliquise. 
weeping-ripet (we'ping-rip), a. Ready to weep. 
Tlie king was weeping-Hpe for a good word. 
Shak., L. L. L, v. 2. 274. 
weeping-spring (we'ping-spring), 11. A spring 
that very slowly discharges water. 
weeping- widow (we'ping-wid'6), n. The 
guinea-hen ilower, FntiUaria Mehagris. Brit- 
ten and Holland. [Prov. Eng.] 
weeplyt (wep'li), a. [< ME. wepU; < weep + 
-i^i.] Weeping; tearful. 
I . . . niarkede my wepli corapleynte with office of 
poyntel. Chaucer, Boethius, i. prose 1. 
weepy (we'pi), a. [< weep + -i/l.] Moist; 
springy; exuding moisture; oozy; seepy : as, 
iceep!/ clay ; weepy stone. [Prov. Eng.] 
weerisht, «• Same as wearixh. 
weesandt, «• An old spelling of iceasand. 
weese-allen (wes'ar'en), n. The Jiiger or skua- 
gull. See dirtij-atlen. Also loease-allan, weese- 
allan, weese-aulin. 
weeselt, «• An old spelling of tceasel. 
weet^t, V. An obsolete form of ici/l. 
weetl (wet), «. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of wit^. 
weet^ (wet), »., a., and r. A dialectal form of 
tcet. 
weet'' (wet), a. A dialectal form of wiglit"^. 
weet'^ (wet), «. [Imitative.] The peetweet, or 
common sandpiper. See Tringoides Weet-my- 
feet, an imitative name for the common quail, Coturnix 
communis (or dactylisonans). [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
weet* (wet), r. >. [See weet^, ».] To cry as a 
weet or peetweet. 
A sand-piper glided weet wectinq along tlie shore. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 2. 
weet-bird (wet'berd), «. [<weet^ + hird"^. Cf. 
pcetu-eet.^ The wryneck, Ijpix torqniUa : from 
its cry. See cut under wryneck. 
weetingt, weetinglyt. See witting, wittingly. 
weetlesst, «. An obsolete form of witless. 
weetweet (wet'wet), n. Same as »■«■(*. 
weeverH, "• Same as weacer-bird. Latham, 
17«2. 
weever^ (we'ver), ». [Formerly spelled wearer, 
and appar. a particular use of wearer"^. Zo- 
ologists now connect it with the L. specific 
name vip/era, as if weerer were a var. of the obs. 
icirec] Either one of two British fishes of the 
genus Trachinus, the greater, T. draco, 10 or 12 
inches long, and the lesser, T. ripera, of half 
this length; hence, any member of tlie Tra- 
chinidse (which see). These fishes have sharp dorsal 
and opercular spines, with which they may inflict a pain- 
ful and serious wountl when incautiously handled. It 
does not appear that the spines convey a sijecific poison, 
Ijnt they are smearo'l with a slime which causes the punc- 
ture they inflict to fester, like the similar wound from the 
tail-spine of the sting-ray. See cut under Trachimtn. 
weever-flsh (we'ver-fish), u. Same as !Ceci'cc2. 
weevil (we'vl), v. [Early mod. E. also wcavil, 
n-earel, trirel ; < ME. wevcl, wirel, weryl, wyrel. 
< AS. n:ifel, in an early gloss w^ibil, a beetle 
(cf. wiliha in saern-wihlxi, dung-beetle), = OS. 
wivil = MLO. M'ei-'-? = D. werel = OHG. wibil, 
wihel. MH(t. wihel, <i. wieliel, wihel. a weevil, = 
Icel. yjill (in comp. M/t/-)/////, dung-beetle).] 1. 
A snout -beetle; any coleopterous insect of 
the section lihynrhojihoni (which see). The 
term Is more properly restricted to the lonK-snciut<:d 
forms of the family Ciirr,idioit!dje, l)ut is also e.xtended 
(beyond the Rhynchuphura) to tlir> family Ilrucliidie. The 
weevils are almost exclusively plant-feeders ; most of them 
live in nuts, grains, the stems of plants, rolled-up leaves, 
catkins, i>r fruit, while others are leaf-miners, and a few 
liveingall-likeexcrescenceson the stems or rcotsfd plants. 
Brachytarxug contains the only c-arinvorons forms, and 
these are said t^> live on baik-li*-e. .'^oine forms .ire siib- 
acpiatic, as the water-weevil, LiK^orhnptrun simplex. See 
phrases following, and <-nts under AntkiinoitiU'<, liulani- 
nvM, f/ean-n-eecil, lirurhlts, Catandra, clover-ueevil. Cono- 
6870 
weigh 
trachelut, diamond-beetle, Epicemis, pea-weevil, Fissodes, weOZelt, "• An old spelling of weasel. 
pluni-gouger, Ehynchophora, and geed-w^etrU. 
Tlie wheat which is not turned is eaten with wiueh. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1677), p. 94. 
About this time it chanced a pretty secret to be dis- 
couered to preserue their corne from the fly, or weauell, 
which did in a manner as much hurt as the rats. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 101. 
The Thunder, which went to Bemmda the 17th Octoljer, 
now returned, bringing corn and goats from Virginia, 
(for the weavila had taken the com at Bernmda before 
they came there). Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 159. 
2. Any insect which damages stored grain, as 
the fly-weevil, a local name in the southern 
United States for the grain-moth, (lelechia 
cerealella. See grain-moth, 2. — 3. The larva 
of the wheat-midge. Diplosis tritici. Also called 
V. Riley. [Western U. S.] 
weftl (weft), «. [< ME. weft, < AS. weft, wefta 
(= Icel. veftr, also vipta, rifta), threads woven 
into and crossing the warp; with fonnative -t, 
< wef an, -weave: see tceaic-l.] 1. The threads, 
taken together, which run across the web from 
side to side, or from selvage to selvage. -Also 
called woof. 
The we/t was so called from its being " wafted " in and 
out of the warp ; it is also often called the woof, though 
more con-ectly the woof is the same as the web or fin- 
ished stuff. Encyc. Brit, XXIII. 206. 
2. In bot., a name sometimes given to a felt- 
like stratum produced in certain fungi by abun- 
dant closely interwoven hyphse. 
The peripheral portion of the delicate hyphal wtift. 
De Bary, Fungi (trans.), p. 217. 
red weevil. C. _ _ 
Apple-blossom weevil, Anthonomus pommum, which ,,« ^ ^^ i-ij 
attacks the flower-buds of the apple in Europe.— Apple- WCft^t. An obsolete form of the preterit and 
weevil, Anthonomus qiiadrigibbus, a weevil which infests past participle of wave^. 
the fruit of the apple in the United States. Commonly \. ... , , , , , t.. .,„«» 
called apple-curculL See apple-curculio, and cut under Ne can thy irrevocable desteny bee ««/(«. 
AnUimmnus.-Ca.bbaee-'^eeyil, Ceuthortiynchus najn, A^jcMer, Ji. y., iii. iv. ao. 
whose larvre bore the crown of young cabbages in Europe, weit^t, "• name as waij. 
and which is supposed to have been introduced recently -weft* (weft), 11. A dialectal foiin of waft, 3. 
into the United States.— Chestnut-weevil, Baiumma _, . »..*.„„ ... >,<„f i„ „ „„« „f„, ,,» 
caryatriixs, a very long nosed weevil whose larva is the The strongest sort of smells are best in a w^f afar off 
common chestnut-grub of the United States.- Clover- *<"^''"' ^at- Hist., |8S3. 
weevU. (a) Seedoi)«r-tcecCTi(withcut). (())PA7/(o»iomi(s .^gfl.-^., c^gf/^jj;\ „_ \<. weftT- + -aqe.'] Tex- 
imnctatus, whose larvffi feed on the leaves of clover in "„l""4^,„ „t„i„ „_,.„-- 
Europe anil tlie United States, (c) Sitones cn'm7u» and S. 
jlavescens, which feed upon the leaves of clover in Europe, 
their larva; boring in the roots. The latter has been intro- 
duced into the United States.— Cranberry-weevll, ^n- 
^Ao)iomM(rM(«rai!».— Grape-weevU. (n) Craponiusin- 
«(/uaZis, which attacks tlie fruit of tlie grape in the United , , . 
States. (*) otiorhynchus suicatus and O. j)fcij)c», which woft-fork (weft'fork), Ji. 1. A device employed 
feedupon the leaves and shoots of the grape in Europe, jjj some looms to lay in, piece by piece, a filling 
ture ; the style or quality of the web, as of any 
textile fabric. 
The whole muscles, as they lie upon the bones, might 
be truly tanned, whereby the we/tage of the fibres might 
more easily lie observed. Grew, Museum. (Latham.) 
(c) Rhynchites betuleti, a formidaljle grape-pest in Europe, 
which rolls the leaves of the vine.— Hazelnut-weevil, 
Balaninus nuciim. — Hlckory-nut weevil, Balaninus 
nasicus, whose larva is found commonly in hickory -nuts in 
the United States.— Imbricated weevil, Epicarus im- 
trricatuit, of the X'nited States. See Epicserua (with cut).— 
Ironwood leaf-weevil, an undetermined weevil which 
mines the leaves of iron- 
wood in the United States. 
— Leaf-rolling weevil, 
any weevil whoselarva lives 
in a leaf-roll, as Attelabus 
hipunctulatus of the United 
States, wliose larva rolls the 
leaves of oak.— New York 
weevil, Ifhycerus novebo- 
racen-tis, the adult of which 
gnaws the twigs of fruit- 
trees in the United States, 
wliile its larva devours the 
interior of oak and hickory- 
twigs. - Oak-bark weevil, 
Magdalit olyra, which lives 
under tlie bark of oak in 
the United States.- Palm- 
weevll, Hhynchophoriis 
paltnarwn, li. fei"rugineus, 
and allied species, which 
bore into the trunk of palm- 
trees. See palm-worm, un- 
der Mwm.— Pear-shaped 
weevil, any weevil of the 
genus Apion, as A, apri- 
cans, an enemy to clover in 
England. See cuts under 
clover-iceevil and seed-wee- 
vil.— Pitch -esitiag wee- 
New York Weevil {Ithycerus 
nmeborai-fnsis). 
stem punctured by larva : A. 
pupa ; f. lM;etle. 
Vll, Paehylobiu.'i picivortat, 
« inch lives under the bark of the pitch-pine in the I'nited 
of slats, whalebone, palm-leaf, or other stiffen- 
ing material.— 2. An early aiTangement for 
stopping a loom in case of the failure of the 
weft -thread. It is essentially a weighted lever, which 
is supported by the weft-thread, and performs its action 
by falling in the event of the breakage or failure of the 
thread. 
weft-hook (weft'hiik), «. A tool used to draw 
the filling through the warp in some kinds of 
hand-weaving, as in slat-weaving and some 
narrow-ware weaving or ribbon-weaving. 
wegget, 11- A Middle English form of wedge^. 
weght, weigh^t, "• See wie. 
weght, n. See weeht. 
weghtnest, »• Same as wightness. 
weheet, "• Seewighie. 
wehrgeld, wehrgelt, «. See wergild. 
" wehrUte (war'lit), «. [Named after Aloys 
ll'ehrle, an Austrian metallurgist and mining 
official (1791-1835).] A mineral obtained from 
Dentsch-Pilsen, in Hungary, in steel-gray folia 
with bright metallic luster and high specific 
graWty (8.4). It consists essentially of liismuth and 
tellurium, and some analyses show the presence of a 
small amount of silver. It is allied to tetradymite, but 
its exact composition is uncertain, and it is possible that 
more than one species may be included under the name. 
wehr-wolft, ". See werwolf. 
weit, «• An old spelling of way. 
weibyeite, «. A rare iiuo-carbonate of the met- 
als of the cerium group, occurring in minute 
states. 
trinotatns, 
. . . white crystals in southern Norway. 
Potato-stalk weevil, Trichobar,.(orBandins) j^ , .^^. g ,,.^^^3. 
s. a weevil whose larva bores the staUs of the "^J" \ /» ... 
' potato in the niid,lle weiet, r. An old spelling of weiglA. 
United States. -Quince- Weierstrassian (vi-^r-stras'i-an), a. Of or 
weevil, Conotrachelus pertaining to, or named from, K. T. W. Weier- 
strass, a German mathematician (bom 1816). 
-Weierstrassian function, (a) One of the functions 
used in Weierstrass's metliod of treating elliptic functions. 
(It) The function 
ix = i« b" cos^a") XTT. 
Quince-weevil {Conotrachelus 
cratxgi^. 
a, side view ; b, dorsal view. 
(Line shows natural size.) 
crateegi, which lioros into 
tlie fruit of the quince 
in the United States.- 
Rhubarb- weevil, hix- 
us concarus, wliich bores 
the stems of rliubarb in 
the niiddleUnited States. 
— Roae-weevll, Aromi- 
gus fuUeri, whose larva 
burrows in the roots of 
the rose.— Strawberry- 
weeviL («) The straw- 
berry-crown borer(which 
see, with cut,nndersfrrtw- 
berry), Tyloderjna fraga- 
intotheroot-erownoftliestrawb^^Si^feSslEWeiei^traSS'k'fundame^^^^ 
(d) y4H(AonomtKm«.sc»i«s, the adult of which destroys the thcoicm. , , ,„, , j ^^ ■ iv 
lilossnms and flower-staliss of the strawberry in tlie eastern WeigOrt S method. The method of tracing the 
I'nited States.— White-pine weevil Sec Pti!sorfc»(wiili eourse of the mediillated nerve-fibers bv hard- 
cut), {ice a.\s,<y acorn-weevil, bean-weeml.diammd-wecviL p,,;,,©' and staininff them 
grain-weenl, nut-weevil, pea-weevil, pine-weevil, plum-wee- ening ana stainiiigj_ue_iii. 
vil, rice-weevil, seed-weevil, water-weevil, wheat-weevil.) 
weeviled, weevilled (we'vld), a. [< wceiHl + 
-ed'^.'] Infested or infected with weevils, as 
grain. 
weevily, weevilly (we'vl-i), n. [< weevil + -i/i .] 
Same as weeviled. 
wee-wowl (w-e'wou), a. [Appar. a redupl. var. 
of 'wow. < AS. wOh. crooked.] Wrong. Ilnl- 
liwill. [Prov. Eng.] 
Wee-W0w2 (we'wou), r. [< icce-woH-l, «.] To 
twist iibout in an irregular manner, llalliwill. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
In certain cases, as when p = 1, fc<l, a&>l -f §w, this func- 
tion, although continuous, has no differential coefficient. 
In fact, the curve of the function, when seen at a distance, 
appears like a simple curve of sines ; but when it is mag- 
nified, small waves are seen upon it ; under a higher mag- 
nifying power, wavelets on these waves ; and so on ad in- 
finitum; so that, although f (x -i- h) - tx becomes infini- 
tesimal witll h, yet it has no limiting ratio to h. 
- - See 
weighl (wa), r. [Early mod. E. also way; < 
MK weien, wcyen, wegcn (pret. wei, wai, wege, 
weie, wogh, pp. weien, iwcge, itceie, wowiii), < AS. 
wegan (pret. wa>(i. pp. wegen), carry, bear, also 
iiitr. move, = OFries. wega. weia = MD. we- 
ghen, D. wegen, weigh, =OH6. wegan, MHG. we- 
gen. move, G. wegen in comp. betregen, move, 
also in var. forms wiegen, rock, wdgen, weigh, 
= Icel. rcga. move, carry, lift, weigh, = Sw. 
riiga, weigh. = Dan. rcie, "weigh, = Goth, gatri- 
;/«'», move, sliake about, = 0Bulg.tf,s7i, go, move, 
= L. vehere, carry, = Gr. ex^iv, bxe'ioOai = Skt. 
