English English Dictionary

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

To move violently; to agitate.

To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Shedding tears; tender.

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.

of Tear

Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.

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.

Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

To comb or card, as wool or flax.