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Definition of tear

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Tear (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids..

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Abrupt :: Abrupt (v. t.) To tear off or asunder.

Stonechat :: Stonechat (n.) The wheatear.

Penitential :: Penitential (a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears..

Tear-falling :: Tear-falling (a.) Shedding tears; tender.

Rain :: Rain (n.) To fall or drop like water from the clouds; as, tears rained from their eyes..

Laniary :: Laniary (a.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth..

Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..

Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..

Tear :: Tear (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions..

Lachrymose :: Lachrymose (a.) Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). 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, and whitetail..

Shredding :: Shredding (n.) The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.

Dilaniate :: Dilaniate (v. t.) To rend in pieces; to tear.

Droplet :: Droplet (n.) A little drop; a tear.

Scratchback :: Scratchback (n.) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons..

"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) 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..

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped..

Teary :: Teary (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears..

Tire :: Tire (v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything..

Mangle :: Mangle (v. t.) To cut or bruise with 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..