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To tear up. Milton.

A small European singing bird (Saxicola oenanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat…

To tear off or asunder. [Obs.] "Till death abrupts them." Sir T. Browne.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

plant, the Dorema ammoniacum. It is brought chiefly from Persia in the form of yellowish tears, which occur singly, or are aggregated into masses. It has a peculiar smell, and a nauseous, sweet taste, followed by a bitter one. It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine…

To tear up by the roots; to draw away. [Obs.] Wyatt.

Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "Artificial tears." Shak.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

To moisten with dew, or as with dew. "Falling tears his face bedew." Dryden.

as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. "Tears began to flow." Dryden. When I begin, I will also make an end. 1 Sam. iii. 12.

To mangle; to tear asunder. [R.] Beaumont.

To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

To weep over; to deplore; to bedew with tears. "His timeless death beweeping." Drayton.

exasperated. -- Like blazes, furiously; rapidly. [Low] "The horses did along like blazes tear." Poem in Essex dialect.

ing blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears. Dear Cloe, how blubbered is that pretty face! Prior.

Tears; -- so called from their saltness. What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline! Shak. Brine fly (Zoöl.), a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes. -- Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid. -- Brine pan, a pit or p…

Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish. "Brinish tears." Shak.

e mouth with pepper. This tyrant fever burns me up. Shak. This dry sorrow burns up all my tears. Dryden. When the cold north wind bloweth, . . . it devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the Ecclus. xliii. 20, 21.

ith some qualifying adverb or preposition, as forth, out, away, into, upon, through, etc. Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To bur…