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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Rend :: Rend (v. t.) To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
Cry :: Cry (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child..
Wittol :: Wittol (n.) The wheatear.
Shredding :: Shredding (n.) The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.
Rip :: Rip (n.) A rent made by ripping, esp. by a seam giving way; a tear; a place torn; laceration..
Root :: Root (v. t.) To tear up by the root; to eradicate; to extirpate; -- with up, out, or away..
Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To get by, or as by, cutting or tearing..
Bemangle :: Bemangle (v. t.) To mangle; to tear asunder.
Seborrhea :: Seborrhea (n.) A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.
Stream :: Stream (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes..
Lanciname :: Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Palmitin :: Palmitin (n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate..
Tearpit :: Tearpit (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.
Weeper :: Weeper (n.) One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears..
Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To give vent to (tears) or utter (broken words or cries); -- with forth or out.
Dislimb :: Dislimb (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember.
Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..
Stream :: Stream (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears..
Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek..
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