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Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions.

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

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

The act of shedding tears; weeping.

A "tear-bottle;" a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former 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.

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

To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

A tearing; laceration. "Lancinations of the spirit." Jer. Taylor.

A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister.

Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.

To tear in pieces. [R.]

A tearing in pieces. [R.]

See Tearpit.

The cover of the eye; an eyelid. Shak. Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid. Byron.

To dismember; to tear off the limbs of.

Piecemeal. [Obs.] "To tear her limbmeal." Shak.

To tear to pieces. [Obs.] Milton.

ith repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.