weeping spring

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. "Weeping eyes." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]

2.Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. "Weeping grounds." --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]

3.Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash. [1913 Webster]

4.Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]