[wee-per] 
| 1. | a person who weeps. |
| 2. | (formerly) a hired mourner at a funeral. |
| 3. | something worn as a badge of mourning, as a widow's black veil. |
| 4. | a wine bottle that has lost some of its contents through the cork. |
| 5. | any of various loose-hanging, streamerlike objects, as a long, hanging hatband or a strand of moss hanging from a tree. |
| 6. | Informal. a sad story, motion picture, song, or the like, that is apt to make one cry. |
| weep·er (wē'pər) n.
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