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

Scalp :: Scalp (v. t.) To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.

Rip :: Rip (v. t.) To tear up for search or disclosure, or for alteration; to search to the bottom; to discover; to disclose; -- usually with up..

Shedder :: Shedder (n.) One who, or that which, sheds; as, a shedder of blood; a shedder of tears..

Unroot :: Unroot (v. t.) To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.

Tear :: Tear (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home..

Repentant :: Repentant (a.) Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes..

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

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.

Claw :: Claw (n.) To pull, tear, or scratch with, or as with, claws or nails..

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..

Off :: Off (adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like..

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..

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

Tear-thumb :: Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles..

Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain..

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

Whitetail :: Whitetail (n.) The wheatear.

Stearone :: Stearolic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acetylene series, isologous with stearis acid, and obtained, as a white crystalline substance, from oleic acid..

Ripple :: Ripple (v. t.) Hence, to scratch or tear..