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Tear :: 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..

Split :: Split (v. t.) To burst; to rupture; to rend; to tear asunder.

Totear :: Totear (v. t.) To tear or rend in pieces.

Tease :: Tease (v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments..

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

Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears..

Steatite :: Stearyl (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.

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..

Dislimb :: Dislimb (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dismember.

Rug :: Rug (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.

Pseudosphere :: Pseudosphere (n.) The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.

Watery :: Watery (a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful..

Bemangle :: Bemangle (v. t.) To mangle; to tear asunder.

Rent :: Rent (v. t.) To tear. See Rend.

Disroot :: Disroot (v. t.) To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot..

Distrain :: Distrain (v. t.) To rend; to tear.

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..

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

Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

Mastic :: Mastic (n.) A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes..

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