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.
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.
A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
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.
To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Importunate supplication.
Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
Common report; fame.
A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
A pack of hounds.
A pack or company of persons; - in contempt.
The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
