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.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 2868. Þe quen was wery for-wept · & went to bedde.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., III. 1149.
Of vines that forwepe & turne away | |
ffrom fruit, the Greekes wol the stok to tere. |
1423. Jas. I., Kingis Q., lxxiii.
So lang till evin, for lak of myght, and mynd, | |
For-wepit and for-pleynit pitously. |
a. 1500. Chaucers Dreme, Wks. (1687), 606/2.
With visage and ein all forwept, | |
And pale, as man longe vnslept. |