Definition of tear

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Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..

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Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
Disroot :: Disroot (v. t.) To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from a foundation; to uproot..
White-ear :: White-ear (n.) The wheatear.
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..
Lachrymal :: Lachrymal (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland..
Weeping :: Weeping (n.) The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
Langrel :: Langrel (n.) A kind of shot formerly used at sea for tearing sails and rigging. It consisted of bolts, nails, and other pieces of iron fastened together or inclosed in a canister..
Glycerine :: Glycerine (n.) An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin..
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..
Lachrymary :: Lachrymary (a.) Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal..
Blinding :: Blinding (a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow..
Rug :: Rug (v. t.) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..
Dilacerate :: Dilacerate (v. t.) To rend asunder; to tear to pieces.
Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.
Mangler :: Mangler (n.) One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
Dirempt :: Dirempt (v. t.) To separate by force; to tear apart.
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..
"""lachrymatory " :: Lachrymatory (n.) A tear-bottle; a narrow-necked vessel found in sepulchers of the ancient Romans; -- so called from a former notion that the tears of the deceased person's friends were collected in it. Called also lachrymal or lacrymal..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped..
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