Definition of tear

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Tear (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily..

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Lachrymiform :: Lachrymiform (a.) Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.
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..
Lacerate :: Lacerate (v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart..
Touze :: Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Tearing :: Tearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tea.
Stream :: Stream (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears..
Teary :: Teary (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.
Euphorbium :: Euphorbium (n.) An inodorous exudation, usually in the form of yellow tears, produced chiefly by the African Euphorbia resinifrea. It was formerly employed medicinally, but was found so violent in its effects that its use is nearly abandoned..
Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
Scalp :: Scalp (v. t.) To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
Lace-bark :: Lace-bark (n.) A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); -- so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark.
Penitential :: Penitential (a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears..
Margarin :: Margarin (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin..
Elaeoptene :: Elaeoptene (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts..
Destruction :: Destruction (n.) The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.
Lanciname :: Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Oleomargarine :: Oleomargarine (n.) A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin..
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..
Stearoptene :: Stearone (n.) The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate..
Bemangle :: Bemangle (v. t.) To mangle; to tear asunder.
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