Word Meanings - WEEPING-RIPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. Shak.

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• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• WEEPING TREE
  Any tree having pendulous branches. A tree from which honeydew or other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp. one infested by the larvæ of any species of the genus Ptylus, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical
• WEEPER
  The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 . (more info) 1. One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears. 2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith.
• WEEP
  The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
• WEEPFUL
  Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. Wyclif.
• READY-WITTED
  Having ready wit.
• WEEPINGLY
  In a weeping manner.
• WEEPING-RIPE
  Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. Shak.
• READY
  A word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim. All ready, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or prepared. " am all redy at
• WEEPING
  The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• FORWEEP
  To weep much.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• THREADY
  1. Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. 2. Containing, or consisting of, thread.
• SWEEPWASHER
  One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
• UNREADY
  1. Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy. Dryden. Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast. Keble. 2. Not dressed; undressed.
• SWEEPER
  One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.
• SWEEPINGS
  Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
• SWEEP
  To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net. 7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold , to form the