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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Weep·ing, a.
 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears.  Weeping eyes.”
 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water.  Weeping grounds.”
 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.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Gan·gli·on n.; pl. L. Ganglia E. Ganglions
 1. Anat. (a) A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve. (b) A node, or gland in the lymphatic system; as, a lymphatic ganglion.
 2. Med. A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew.
 Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.