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d by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear. Chaucer.

Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling pity." Shak.

A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.

Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.

A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

Wet with tears; tearful.

A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.

A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow. Stearic acid (Chem.), a monobasic fatty acid, obtained in the form of white crystalline scales, soluble in alcohol and ether. It melts to an oily liquid at 69°C.C18H36O2, CH3.(CH2)16.COOH; sodium stearate, with sodium palmitate, is the main componen…

t, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleïc acid.

The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.

The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elæoptene.

seborrhea.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

To tear or rend in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tristearin.

See Stearin.