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Definition of Weeping sinew

Weeping sinew
Weeping Weep"ing, a. 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. ``Weeping eyes.' --I. Watts. 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. ``Weeping grounds.' --Mortimer. 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. Weeping willow (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix Babylonica) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly.
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Ganglion Gan"gli*on, n.; pl. L. Ganglia, E. Ganglions. [L. ganglion a sort of swelling or excrescence, a tumor under the skin, Gr. ?: cf. F. ganglion.] 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.

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- cultures in the Great Basin region. These bow staves are typically backed with sinew to provide tension strength that the wood may lack. Ancient Mesopotamians...
- limped from the injury to his thigh. Because of this, Jews do not eat the sinew of the vein that is the hollow of the thigh because the man touched the...
- winter - he often found woe Once Nithad laid restraints on him, supple sinew-bonds on the better man. That went by; so can this. - To Beadohilde, her...
- the being saw that he did not overpower Jacob, he touched Jacob on the sinew of his thigh (the gid hanasheh, גיד הנשה), and, as a result, Jacob developed...
- shaking and trembling all the while. This is not because the gibbon's sinews and bones have become stiff and lost their suppleness, but because it finds...
- altered their appearance with cranial deformation. Cordage was spun from sinew, hide, and fibrous plants. During the last few centuries of the Adena zenith...
- sucking infant lives to die in battle; the weeping mother feeds him for the slaughter" and "the trembling sinews of old age must work the work of death against...