資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Weeping \Weep"ing\, a.
   1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. ``Weeping eyes.''
      --I. Watts.

   2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very
      slowly; surcharged with water. ``Weeping grounds.''
      --Mortimer.

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

   4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep.

   {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.

   {Weeping willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix
      Babylonica}) whose branches grow very long and slender,
      and hang down almost perpendicularly.

Willow \Wil"low\, n. [OE. wilowe, wilwe, AS. wilig, welig; akin
   to OD. wilge, D. wilg, LG. wilge. Cf. {Willy}.]
   1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Salix}, including
      many species, most of which are characterized often used
      as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. ``A
      wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight.'' --Sir W.
      Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the
      person beloved, is said to wear the willow.

            And I must wear the willow garland For him that's
            dead or false to me.                  --Campbell.

   2. (Textile Manuf.) A machine in which cotton or wool is
      opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes
      projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded
      with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having
      been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods,
      though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the
      winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called
      also {willy}, {twilly}, {twilly devil}, and {devil}.

   {Almond willow}, {Pussy willow}, {Weeping willow}. (Bot.) See
      under {Almond}, {Pussy}, and {Weeping}.

   {Willow biter} (Zo["o]l.) the blue tit. [Prov. Eng.]

   {Willow fly} (Zo["o]l.), a greenish European stone fly
      ({Chloroperla viridis}); -- called also {yellow Sally}.

   {Willow gall} (Zo["o]l.), a conical, scaly gall produced on
      willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly ({Cecidomyia
      strobiloides}).

   {Willow grouse} (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan. See
      {ptarmigan}.

   {Willow lark} (Zo["o]l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.]

   {Willow ptarmigan} (Zo["o]l.)
      (a) The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting.
          See under {Reed}.
      (b) A sparrow ({Passer salicicolus}) native of Asia,
          Africa, and Southern Europe.

   {Willow tea}, the prepared leaves of a species of willow
      largely grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, extensively
      used by the poorer classes of Chinese as a substitute for
      tea. --McElrath.

   {Willow thrush} (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the veery, or
      Wilson's thrush. See {Veery}.

   {Willow warbler} (Zo["o]l.), a very small European warbler
      ({Phylloscopus trochilus}); -- called also {bee bird},
      {haybird}, {golden wren}, {pettychaps}, {sweet William},
      {Tom Thumb}, and {willow wren}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

weeping willow
     n : willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native
         to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental [syn: {Babylonian
         weeping willow}, {Salix babylonica}]