weeper noun.
['wi:pǝ] ME.[from WEEP verb + -ER1.]1. A person who weeps, esp. habitually;
spec. (a) (now chiefly
Hist.) a hired mourner at a funeral etc.;
(b) Ecclesiastical History a member of the lowest class of penitents in the early Eastern Church.
ME.b. A small image of a mourner in a niche on a funeral monument.
M17.2. Chiefly
Hist. Anything worn as a conventional badge of mourning;
spec. (a) a strip of white material worn on a man's cuff;
(b) a man's black crape hat-band;
(c) a widow's black crape veil or white cuff. Usu. in
pl. E18.3. In full
weeper capuchin. A capuchin monkey of northern S. America,
Cebus olivaceus, which has a pale face and dark V-shaped cap.
L18.4. A hole or pipe in a wall for the escape of dripping water.
L19.5. In
pl. Long side-whiskers worn without a beard. Also
DUNDREARY weepers,
PICCADILLY weepers.
L19.6. =
WEEPIE.
colloq. M20.7. A wine bottle that leaks gradually through the cork.
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