cry vs weeper

cry

noun
  • A shedding of tears; the act of crying. 

  • A desperate or urgent request. 

  • Words shouted or screamed. 

  • A shout or scream. 

  • A group of hounds. 

  • A clamour or outcry. 

  • A typical sound made by the species in question. 

verb
  • To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do. 

  • To shed tears; to weep. 

  • To shout, scream, yell. 

  • To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping. 

  • To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. 

  • To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc. 

  • Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. 

weeper

noun
  • A pleurant. 

  • A weeping tree. 

  • A white border round the sleeve of a mourning dress. 

  • A widow's crape veil. 

  • A hired mourner. 

  • A thing that slowly leaks liquid. 

  • A person who weeps. 

  • A crape hatband. 

How often have the words cry and weeper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )