Chaucer.
For well I ween, Never before in the bowers of light Had the form of an
earthly fay been seen.
J. R. Drake.
Though never a dream the roses sent Of science or love's compliment, I
ween they smelt as sweet.
Mrs. Browning.
Weep (?), n. (Zoöl.) The lapwing; the wipe; — so called from its cry.
Weep, obs. imp. of Weep, for wept. Chaucer.
Weep, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wept (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Weeping.] [OE.
wepen, AS. w&?;pan, from w&?;p lamentation; akin to OFries. w&?;pa to
lament, OS. w&?;p lamentation, OHG. wuof, Icel. &?;p a shouting,
crying, OS. w&?;pian to lament, OHG. wuoffan, wuoffen, Icel. &?;pa,
Goth. w&?;pjan. &?;&?;&?;&?;.]
1. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by
other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by
shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck.
Acts xx. 37.
Phocion was rarely seen to weep or to laugh.
Mitford.
And eyes that wake to weep.
Mrs. Hemans.
And they wept together in silence.
Longfellow.
2. To lament; to complain. "They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh,
that we may eat." Num. xi. 13.