weepern.

Brit.

/ˈwiːpə/, U.S.

/ˈwipər/

Etymology: < weep v. + -er suffix¹.

a. A person who weeps or sheds tears, esp. one who is constantly weeping; (also) one who has tears at command.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper

weeperc1380

beweepera1425

weeping1482

well1609

lachrymist1620

greeter17..

blubberer1786

blubber1832

crier1892

c1380 Antecrist in J. H. Todd Three Treat. Wycklyffe (1851) 142 Crist chese to him wepers; & þei chesen to hem myrye syngers.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges ii. 5 The name of that place [Bochim] is clepid, of wepers, or of terys. [Similarly in 1611 margin]

a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 46 Seynte marie..do fauour to weperes.

1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3^v To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weepe.

1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 1 The Weeper.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 193 Laughter is easie; but the Wonder lies What stores of Brine supply'd the Weepers Eyes.

1735 Craig tr. Veda's Past. (1736) i. 167 Thus, while he sigh'd and dropt a tender Tear, The Hiefers..Nor Crystal Brooks, nor sprouting Grass regard, So much they in the Weeper's Sorrow shar'd.

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 230 My first wife was a weeper, Ma'am; and I did hope to have escaped a second. However, it seems you are come of a crying family.

1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage xii Had I been at any time of my life a weeper and wailer.

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 98 Cowper's tears..never..suggests [sic] that the weeper is proud of his excessive tenderness.

b. spec. A hired mourner at a death-bed or funeral.

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the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional

weeper1412

saulie1621

blacka1625

mourner1631

wailer1647

dismal?1710

mute1741

keener1786

howler1844

moirologist1886

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 3062 It neded hem no wepers for to here,—Þei hadde I-nowe of her owne stoor.

c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 835 With wepers to þe erth yow hym bryng.

1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 386 At funerals in Paris, weepers are usually hired for money.

1714 J. Swift In Sickness in Poems 23 Ye formal Weepers for the Sick.

1824 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba I. xxv. 266 Leilah, who is a professed weeper at burials.

1895 W. M. F. Petrie Egypt. Tales 1st Ser. 115 The weepers crouching at the door of thy tomb shall cry aloud the prayers for offerings.

c. One of a number of little images in niches on a funeral monument, representing mourners.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > other subjects

Sphinx1579

Hercules1638

weeper1656

ophioucha1697

pastorality1821

sheela-na-gig1844

orans1900

kouros1920

three wise monkeys1926

gnome1938

1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 354 xiv Images embossed, of Lords and Ladyes in divers vestures, called Weepers, to stand in housings made about the Tombe.

1790 T. Pennant Of London 64 The sides [of the tombs] are..embellished..with figures of mourners, pleureurs, or weepers, frequently in monastic habits.

1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxiii. 388 Eight compartments, each of them having a canopied effigy or ‘weeper’.

1912 J. S. M. Ward Brasses 85 A magnificent canopy with figures either of saints or of ‘weepers’ in niches.

d. Church History. One of the lowest class of penitents (προσκλαίοντες, flentes) in the early Eastern Church.

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing > varieties of

prostratea1600

succumbent1661

co-stander1709

prostrator1709

consistenta1711

kneeler1719

substrator1720

weeper1841

stander1877

scrupulant1938

1841 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 152/2 That abject class of penitents, mentioned in ancient ecclesiastical canons as mourners, kneelers, and weepers,..who, covered with sackcloth and ashes, were enjoined to perform penance in the open air.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 486/1.

2. The Capuchin monkey ( Cebus capucinus) of South America. Also weeper sai, weeper capuchin, weeper monkey. Cf. French singe pleureur and bewailer n. 2.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Cebus (Capuchin)

sapajou1698

bewailer1774

sai1774

sajou1774

weeper1780

Capuchin monkey1785

weeping monkey1834

Cebus1863

1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 174 The sai, which some travellers have called the weeper, is somewhat larger than the sajou.

1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 204 Weeper monkey.

1821 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. V. 532 Those bearded monkeys called capuchins, which must not be confounded with the weeper or sai.

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 417/1 One of the most common species is the Weeper (Cebus Apella).

1894 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates I. 216 When sleeping the Weeper Çai curls itself up, covering its face with its arms and tail.

3. A conventional badge of mourning. Usually plural.

a. A strip of white linen or muslin formerly worn on the cuff of a man's sleeve. Cf. French pleureuse.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other

jace1399

loopa1475

shakers1506

aglet1530

nerve1531

pipe1533

targeting1563

pinion1583

pinioning1597

tzitzit1618

loop-lace1632

button1671

tip1681

fal-lal1703

falbala1705

furbelow1706

jewelling1718

weeper1724

pompom1748

chiffons1765

foliage-trimming1818

mancheron1822

piping1825

manchette1835

patte1835

streamer1838

waterfall1841

paillette1843

brandenburgs1873

motif1882

patch1884

smocking1888

jockey1896

strapping1898

steel1899

sparklet1902

slotting1923

1724 London Gaz. No. 6255/2 All..being enjoyned to appear..in long black Cloaks, Cambrick Bands, Chamoy Shooes, Weepers, &c.

1746 H. Walpole Let. 1 Aug. in Corr. (1954) XIX I..was assisted by the sight of the Marquis of Lothian in weepers for his son who fell at Culloden.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 127 Our merry mourners clap bits of muslin on their sleeves, and these are called weepers.

1827 T. Hood True Story 115 There comes some unexpected stroke And hangs a weeper on the cuff.

1892 D. Fraser Autobiogr. ii. 4 Our cuffs were covered with white linen ‘weepers’.

b. A broad white cuff worn by widows.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for arms > [noun] > covering for wrist > cuff > types of

weeper1755

wrist-fall1890

1755 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 148 Making 6 shirts..6 suit double mobs—6 lawn hoods—6 pair weepers.

1786 R. Burns Poems 182 Auld, cantie Kyle may weepers wear, An' stain them wi' the saut, saut tear.

1811 Sporting Mag. 38 47 With weepers she has tipped her sleeve The while she's laughing in it.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Bluebeard's Ghost in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 413/1 She [the widow] had her beautiful hair confined in crimped caps, and her weepers came over her elbows.

1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob xix Mrs. Antrobus..wore very deep and very wide weepers.

c. A long black hat-band formerly worn by men.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > as sign of mourning

hatband1598

crape1763

weeper1832

mourning band1862

1832 F. H. Standish Maid of Jaen 40 The plumes broad floating in the air, And weepers which the followers bear.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. iii. 37 My father..tore off the crape weepers, and then threw them on the floor as he walked away.

1899 W. Besant Orange Girl i. vi. 67 The undertaker..was..tying the weepers on the hats.

d. The long black crape veil of a widow.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > veil > types of

flockard1465

power1526

crispa1592

fall1611

mant1651

mantilla1717

bridal veil1769

litham1839

voilette1842

yashmak1844

weeper1845

birdcage veil1888

fingertip veil1888

ghoonghat1916

spiderveil1922

niqab1936

full veil1937

1845 Knickerbocker Mag. 26 585 The long black crape ‘weeper’, which it was the custom at that time to wear depending from the hat behind.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. xii. 236 He might cherish the mean project of heightening her grief at his death by leaving her poorly off, in which case she was firmly resolved that she would have scarcely any weeper on her bonnet.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxx. 284 If anybody was to marry me flattering himself as I should wear those hijeous weepers..for him.

e. transferred. A streamer of moss hanging from a tree.

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the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > streamer of moss hanging from tree

weeper1858

1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xiv. 144 The firs were hung with weepers of black-green moss.

4. Usually plural. Long flowing side-whiskers as worn by ‘Lord Dundreary’ (E. A. Sothern) in the play ‘Our American Cousin’. So Dundreary (or Piccadilly) weepers.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers

side wing1811

mutton chop1851

Dundreary whiskers1859

mutton cutlet1860

Piccadilly weeper1866

burnside1875

Dundrearies1876

sideburn1876

sidebar whiskers1882

sideboards1883

weeper1894

slugger1898

ear guards1905

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1912) i. 4 He wore an immense pair of drooping auburn whiskers, of the kind that used to be called Piccadilly weepers.

1903 Athenæum 13 June 760/3 A mid-Victorian Englishman with ‘Dundreary weepers’.

1908 Sat. Rev. 20 June 775/2 Sir James Day was..adorned with the ‘weeper’—a form of whisker..at one time a popular forensic compromise between the bare face and the full beard.

5. A hole or pipe in a wall for the escape of dripping water. (Cf. weep-hole n. at weep n. Compounds.)

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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > to carry off excess liquid

drainpipe1793

draw-off1826

overflow1837

weeper1890

1890 N.Y. Tribune 2 Feb. The eyes with which it [sc. the aqueduct tunnel] weeps are rightly called weepers, being small rectangular openings in the side walls, through which all the water collected and collecting on the outside of the masonry pours into the inside.

1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xxxvii. 255 A drain-pipe, or what builders term a weeper... The weepers in it are to allow the water from the bank behind it to escape.

6. = weepie n. colloquial.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play

king play1469

king game1504

historya1509

chronicle history1600

monology1608

horseplaya1627

piscatory1631

stock play1708

petite pièce1712

mimic1724

ballad opera1730

ballad farce1735

benefit-play1740

potboiler1783

monodrama1793

extravaganza1797

theo-drama1801

monodrame1803

proverb1803

stock piece1804

bespeak1807

ticket-night1812

dramaticle1813

monopolylogue1819

pièce d'occasion1830

interlude1831

mimea1834

costume piece1834

mummers' play1849

history play1850

gag-piece1860

music drama1874

well-made1881

playlet1884

two-decker1884

slum1885

kinderspiel1886

thrill1886

knockabout1887

two-hander1888

front-piece1889

thriller1889

shadow-play1890

mime play1894

problem play1894

one-acter1895

sex play1899

chronicle drama1902

thesis-play1902

star vehicle1904

folk-play1905

radio play1908

tab1915

spy play1919

one-act1920

pièce à thèse1923

dance-drama1924

a mess of plottage1926

turkey1927

weepie1928

musical1930

cliffhanger1931

mime drama1931

triangle drama1931

weeper1934

spine-chiller1940

starrer1941

scorcher1942

teleplay1947

straw-hatter1949

pièce noire1951

pièce rose1951

tab show1951

conversation piece1952

psychodrama1956

whydunit1968

mystery play1975

State of the Nation1980

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > sentimental film

weepie1928

weeper1934

1934 ‘N. Bell’ Winding Road xvii. 445 A few hot-eared scribes have written weepers about such things and kidded themselves they'd done the trick.

1949 M. Laski in Sketch 21 Dec. 551/2 Every magazine..reckons to print at least one weeper every Christmas.

1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 10/1 Irene Dunn does the suffering in this version of the Fannie Hurst classic weeper about a woman who loves a selfish married man.

1984 Miami Herald 30 Mar. 7 d/4 We have been hearing that romance is making a comeback in the movies, and here it is: the old-fashioned, meet-ya-when-this-war-is-over weeper.

Derivatives

ˈweepered adj. furnished with weepers.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > other

round1565

four-corner1640

basoned1728

cockled1745

featherlessa1845

Christy1867

pullover1877

pugreed1881

sailor-shape1897

off-the-face1908

weepered1908

1908 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Further Experiences Irish R.M. ii. 54 John Cullinane, very dusty, and waving a crushed and weepered hat.

Draft additions 1993

7. A wine bottle that leaks gradually through the cork. Cf. weep v. 4c.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > leaking wine bottle

weeper1946

1946 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. VIII. 174/2 Weeper, a bottle showing the first signs of a defective cork; one that should be recorked, or, preferably, drunk, before it becomes an Ullage.

1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 201 Weepers are bottles leaking through the cork.

1976 Times 4 Sept. 11/5 A ‘weeper’ or bottle showing signs of seepage..may not result in an ullaged wine;..however, it is worth checking with the supplier should you find a weeping bottle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	weeper
释义	weepern. Brit. /ˈwiːpə/, U.S. /ˈwipər/ Etymology: < weep v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A person who weeps or sheds tears, esp. one who is constantly weeping; (also) one who has tears at command. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > weeper weeperc1380 beweepera1425 weeping1482 well1609 lachrymist1620 greeter17.. blubberer1786 blubber1832 crier1892 c1380 Antecrist in J. H. Todd Three Treat. Wycklyffe (1851) 142 Crist chese to him wepers; & þei chesen to hem myrye syngers. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges ii. 5 The name of that place [Bochim] is clepid, of wepers, or of terys. [Similarly in 1611 margin] a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 46 Seynte marie..do fauour to weperes. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K3^v To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weepe. 1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 1 The Weeper. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 193 Laughter is easie; but the Wonder lies What stores of Brine supply'd the Weepers Eyes. 1735 Craig tr. Veda's Past. (1736) i. 167 Thus, while he sigh'd and dropt a tender Tear, The Hiefers..Nor Crystal Brooks, nor sprouting Grass regard, So much they in the Weeper's Sorrow shar'd. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 230 My first wife was a weeper, Ma'am; and I did hope to have escaped a second. However, it seems you are come of a crying family. 1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage xii Had I been at any time of my life a weeper and wailer. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. iii. 98 Cowper's tears..never..suggests [sic] that the weeper is proud of his excessive tenderness. b. spec. A hired mourner at a death-bed or funeral. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional weeper1412 saulie1621 blacka1625 mourner1631 wailer1647 dismal?1710 mute1741 keener1786 howler1844 moirologist1886 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 3062 It neded hem no wepers for to here,—Þei hadde I-nowe of her owne stoor. c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 835 With wepers to þe erth yow hym bryng. 1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 386 At funerals in Paris, weepers are usually hired for money. 1714 J. Swift In Sickness in Poems 23 Ye formal Weepers for the Sick. 1824 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba I. xxv. 266 Leilah, who is a professed weeper at burials. 1895 W. M. F. Petrie Egypt. Tales 1st Ser. 115 The weepers crouching at the door of thy tomb shall cry aloud the prayers for offerings. c. One of a number of little images in niches on a funeral monument, representing mourners. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > other subjects Sphinx1579 Hercules1638 weeper1656 ophioucha1697 pastorality1821 sheela-na-gig1844 orans1900 kouros1920 three wise monkeys1926 gnome1938 1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 354 xiv Images embossed, of Lords and Ladyes in divers vestures, called Weepers, to stand in housings made about the Tombe. 1790 T. Pennant Of London 64 The sides [of the tombs] are..embellished..with figures of mourners, pleureurs, or weepers, frequently in monastic habits. 1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxiii. 388 Eight compartments, each of them having a canopied effigy or ‘weeper’. 1912 J. S. M. Ward Brasses 85 A magnificent canopy with figures either of saints or of ‘weepers’ in niches. d. Church History. One of the lowest class of penitents (προσκλαίοντες, flentes) in the early Eastern Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [noun] > person undergoing > varieties of prostratea1600 succumbent1661 co-stander1709 prostrator1709 consistenta1711 kneeler1719 substrator1720 weeper1841 stander1877 scrupulant1938 1841 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 152/2 That abject class of penitents, mentioned in ancient ecclesiastical canons as mourners, kneelers, and weepers,..who, covered with sackcloth and ashes, were enjoined to perform penance in the open air. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 486/1. 2. The Capuchin monkey ( Cebus capucinus) of South America. Also weeper sai, weeper capuchin, weeper monkey. Cf. French singe pleureur and bewailer n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Cebus (Capuchin) sapajou1698 bewailer1774 sai1774 sajou1774 weeper1780 Capuchin monkey1785 weeping monkey1834 Cebus1863 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 174 The sai, which some travellers have called the weeper, is somewhat larger than the sajou. 1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds I. 204 Weeper monkey. 1821 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. V. 532 Those bearded monkeys called capuchins, which must not be confounded with the weeper or sai. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 417/1 One of the most common species is the Weeper (Cebus Apella). 1894 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates I. 216 When sleeping the Weeper Çai curls itself up, covering its face with its arms and tail. 3. A conventional badge of mourning. Usually plural. a. A strip of white linen or muslin formerly worn on the cuff of a man's sleeve. Cf. French pleureuse. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > other jace1399 loopa1475 shakers1506 aglet1530 nerve1531 pipe1533 targeting1563 pinion1583 pinioning1597 tzitzit1618 loop-lace1632 button1671 tip1681 fal-lal1703 falbala1705 furbelow1706 jewelling1718 weeper1724 pompom1748 chiffons1765 foliage-trimming1818 mancheron1822 piping1825 manchette1835 patte1835 streamer1838 waterfall1841 paillette1843 brandenburgs1873 motif1882 patch1884 smocking1888 jockey1896 strapping1898 steel1899 sparklet1902 slotting1923 1724 London Gaz. No. 6255/2 All..being enjoyned to appear..in long black Cloaks, Cambrick Bands, Chamoy Shooes, Weepers, &c. 1746 H. Walpole Let. 1 Aug. in Corr. (1954) XIX I..was assisted by the sight of the Marquis of Lothian in weepers for his son who fell at Culloden. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 127 Our merry mourners clap bits of muslin on their sleeves, and these are called weepers. 1827 T. Hood True Story 115 There comes some unexpected stroke And hangs a weeper on the cuff. 1892 D. Fraser Autobiogr. ii. 4 Our cuffs were covered with white linen ‘weepers’. b. A broad white cuff worn by widows. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for arms > [noun] > covering for wrist > cuff > types of weeper1755 wrist-fall1890 1755 in W. Macgill Old Ross-shire & Scotl. (1909) I. 148 Making 6 shirts..6 suit double mobs—6 lawn hoods—6 pair weepers. 1786 R. Burns Poems 182 Auld, cantie Kyle may weepers wear, An' stain them wi' the saut, saut tear. 1811 Sporting Mag. 38 47 With weepers she has tipped her sleeve The while she's laughing in it. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Bluebeard's Ghost in Fraser's Mag. Oct. 413/1 She [the widow] had her beautiful hair confined in crimped caps, and her weepers came over her elbows. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob xix Mrs. Antrobus..wore very deep and very wide weepers. c. A long black hat-band formerly worn by men. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > parts of headgear > [noun] > band > types of > as sign of mourning hatband1598 crape1763 weeper1832 mourning band1862 1832 F. H. Standish Maid of Jaen 40 The plumes broad floating in the air, And weepers which the followers bear. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. iii. 37 My father..tore off the crape weepers, and then threw them on the floor as he walked away. 1899 W. Besant Orange Girl i. vi. 67 The undertaker..was..tying the weepers on the hats. d. The long black crape veil of a widow. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > veil > types of flockard1465 power1526 crispa1592 fall1611 mant1651 mantilla1717 bridal veil1769 litham1839 voilette1842 yashmak1844 weeper1845 birdcage veil1888 fingertip veil1888 ghoonghat1916 spiderveil1922 niqab1936 full veil1937 1845 Knickerbocker Mag. 26 585 The long black crape ‘weeper’, which it was the custom at that time to wear depending from the hat behind. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. xii. 236 He might cherish the mean project of heightening her grief at his death by leaving her poorly off, in which case she was firmly resolved that she would have scarcely any weeper on her bonnet. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. viii. lxxx. 284 If anybody was to marry me flattering himself as I should wear those hijeous weepers..for him. e. transferred. A streamer of moss hanging from a tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > moss > [noun] > streamer of moss hanging from tree weeper1858 1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xiv. 144 The firs were hung with weepers of black-green moss. 4. Usually plural. Long flowing side-whiskers as worn by ‘Lord Dundreary’ (E. A. Sothern) in the play ‘Our American Cousin’. So Dundreary (or Piccadilly) weepers. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of whiskers side wing1811 mutton chop1851 Dundreary whiskers1859 mutton cutlet1860 Piccadilly weeper1866 burnside1875 Dundrearies1876 sideburn1876 sidebar whiskers1882 sideboards1883 weeper1894 slugger1898 ear guards1905 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1912) i. 4 He wore an immense pair of drooping auburn whiskers, of the kind that used to be called Piccadilly weepers. 1903 Athenæum 13 June 760/3 A mid-Victorian Englishman with ‘Dundreary weepers’. 1908 Sat. Rev. 20 June 775/2 Sir James Day was..adorned with the ‘weeper’—a form of whisker..at one time a popular forensic compromise between the bare face and the full beard. 5. A hole or pipe in a wall for the escape of dripping water. (Cf. weep-hole n. at weep n. Compounds.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > to carry off excess liquid drainpipe1793 draw-off1826 overflow1837 weeper1890 1890 N.Y. Tribune 2 Feb. The eyes with which it [sc. the aqueduct tunnel] weeps are rightly called weepers, being small rectangular openings in the side walls, through which all the water collected and collecting on the outside of the masonry pours into the inside. 1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xxxvii. 255 A drain-pipe, or what builders term a weeper... The weepers in it are to allow the water from the bank behind it to escape. 6. = weepie n. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play king play1469 king game1504 historya1509 chronicle history1600 monology1608 horseplaya1627 piscatory1631 stock play1708 petite pièce1712 mimic1724 ballad opera1730 ballad farce1735 benefit-play1740 potboiler1783 monodrama1793 extravaganza1797 theo-drama1801 monodrame1803 proverb1803 stock piece1804 bespeak1807 ticket-night1812 dramaticle1813 monopolylogue1819 pièce d'occasion1830 interlude1831 mimea1834 costume piece1834 mummers' play1849 history play1850 gag-piece1860 music drama1874 well-made1881 playlet1884 two-decker1884 slum1885 kinderspiel1886 thrill1886 knockabout1887 two-hander1888 front-piece1889 thriller1889 shadow-play1890 mime play1894 problem play1894 one-acter1895 sex play1899 chronicle drama1902 thesis-play1902 star vehicle1904 folk-play1905 radio play1908 tab1915 spy play1919 one-act1920 pièce à thèse1923 dance-drama1924 a mess of plottage1926 turkey1927 weepie1928 musical1930 cliffhanger1931 mime drama1931 triangle drama1931 weeper1934 spine-chiller1940 starrer1941 scorcher1942 teleplay1947 straw-hatter1949 pièce noire1951 pièce rose1951 tab show1951 conversation piece1952 psychodrama1956 whydunit1968 mystery play1975 State of the Nation1980 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > sentimental film weepie1928 weeper1934 1934 ‘N. Bell’ Winding Road xvii. 445 A few hot-eared scribes have written weepers about such things and kidded themselves they'd done the trick. 1949 M. Laski in Sketch 21 Dec. 551/2 Every magazine..reckons to print at least one weeper every Christmas. 1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 10/1 Irene Dunn does the suffering in this version of the Fannie Hurst classic weeper about a woman who loves a selfish married man. 1984 Miami Herald 30 Mar. 7 d/4 We have been hearing that romance is making a comeback in the movies, and here it is: the old-fashioned, meet-ya-when-this-war-is-over weeper. Derivatives ˈweepered adj. furnished with weepers. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [adjective] > hat > other round1565 four-corner1640 basoned1728 cockled1745 featherlessa1845 Christy1867 pullover1877 pugreed1881 sailor-shape1897 off-the-face1908 weepered1908 1908 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Further Experiences Irish R.M. ii. 54 John Cullinane, very dusty, and waving a crushed and weepered hat. Draft additions 1993 7. A wine bottle that leaks gradually through the cork. Cf. weep v. 4c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > leaking wine bottle weeper1946 1946 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. VIII. 174/2 Weeper, a bottle showing the first signs of a defective cork; one that should be recorked, or, preferably, drunk, before it becomes an Ullage. 1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 201 Weepers are bottles leaking through the cork. 1976 Times 4 Sept. 11/5 A ‘weeper’ or bottle showing signs of seepage..may not result in an ullaged wine;..however, it is worth checking with the supplier should you find a weeping bottle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1380
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