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noun

Weeper n.

One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears.

A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning.

(Zool.) The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 (a).

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Weeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... better to sit at home than not to play at ANYTHING," murmured Lubotshka, with tears in her eyes. She was a great weeper. ...

— Childhood • Leo Tolstoy

... The weeper started violently, dropped her bandaged hands and stared in frightened wonder at the child before her, but she made no reply, and again Peace demanded, "What seems ...

— Heart of Gold • Ruth Alberta Brown

... one, To think, by favor of his wit How well a dentist had been bit By one old stump, and that a loose one! The thing was worth a laugh, but mirth Is still the frailest thing on earth: Alas! how often when a joke Seems in our sleeve, and safe enough, There comes some unexpected stroke And hangs a weeper on the cuff! ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... blow! Make no parley—stop for no expostulation; Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer; Mind not the old man beseeching the young man; Let not the child's voice be heard, nor the mother's entreaties; Make even the trestles to shake the dead, where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong you thump, O terrible ...

— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman

... clutching his hair, as he looked down upon the beautiful weeper. "What am I to do with her, over and above all ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

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