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Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland.
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Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
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Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal.
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The act of shedding tears; weeping.
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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.
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Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.
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Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
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The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.
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A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts.
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A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.
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A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.
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One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers.
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A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf.
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The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.
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Fringed; having a fringed border.