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Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs. [Colloq.]

Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal. Addison.

To weep. [R.] Blount.

The act of shedding tears; weeping.

notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal.

Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.

ng tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. Lamb. -- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.

The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.

One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.

Cut into deep, narrow, irregular lobes; slashed.

Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniæ.

A diminutive lacinia.

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

An expression of languor.

Alack the day; alas; -- an expression of sorrow, regret, dissatisfaction, or surprise.

One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.

One who lacks or is in want.

ng male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar (Zoöl.), the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored markings. The common European species (C. neustria) is striped with blue, yel…

Wanting luster or brightness. "Lackluster eye." Shak.