v. Obs. Pa. pple. forwepe, -weped, -wept(e. [f. FOR- pref.1 + WEEP.] intr. a. To exhaust oneself with weeping. b. Of a vine: To bleed excessively.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 2868. Þe quen was wery for-wept · & went to bedde.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., III. 1149.

        Of vines that forwepe & turne away
ffrom fruit, the Greekes wol the stok to tere.

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1423.  Jas. I., Kingis Q., lxxiii.

        So lang till evin, for lak of myght, and mynd,
  For-wepit and for-pleynit pitously.

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a. 1500.  Chaucer’s Dreme, Wks. (1687), 606/2.

        With visage and ein all forwept,
And pale, as man longe vnslept.

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