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A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [R.]

yes; to darken the senses or understanding of. Her starry eyes were dimmed with streaming tears. C. Pitt.

To separate by force; to tear apart. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

To tear in pieces; to rend. [R.] Stukeley.

To tear limb from limb; to dismember. [Obs.] Bailey.

a battle without dismay. Macaulay. Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld.

To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle.

To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot. A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneous inundations. Goldsmith.

t, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften. As if the world were all dissolved to tears. Shak.

To rend; to tear. [Obs.] Neither guile nor force might it [a net] distrain. Spenser.

To flow. [Poetic] Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.

Tending to pull asunder, tear, or rend; distracting.

r the purpose of making an incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

louds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain. "Drizzling tears." Spenser.

ill. "The trees drop balsam." Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.

A little drop; a tear. Shak.

Of the eyes: Not shedding tears. Not a dry eye was to be seen in the assembly. Prescott.

Not having tears in the eyes.