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Lanciname :: Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.

Bite :: Bite (v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man..

Dismember :: Dismember (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

Tear :: Tear (v. t.) 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..

Lacerable :: Lacerable (a.) That can be lacerated or torn.

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..

Silkweed :: Silkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed..

Macerated :: Macerated (imp. & p. p.) of Macerat.

Soak :: Soak (v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like..

Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

Lacerated :: Lacerated (p. a.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge..

Lacerated :: Lacerated (p. a.) Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound..

Pasteboard :: Pasteboard (n.) A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc..

Dilacerated :: Dilacerated (imp. & p. p.) of Dilacerat.

Steep :: Steep (v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively..

Milkweed :: Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge..

Dilacerate :: Dilacerate (v. t.) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.

Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick..

Acerate :: Acerate (a.) Acerose; needle-shaped.

Lacerative :: Lacerative (a.) Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors..

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