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lachrymal
Part of speech: AdjectivePertaining to tears; secreting tears; as, lachrymal glands. Also, lacrimal, lacrymal.
Usage examples "lachrymal":- " A series of vicissitudes dating from the hour I left your house," said Phineas, " vicissitudes the recital of which would wring your heart, laddie, and make angels weep if their lachrymal glands were not too busily engaged by the horrors of war, culminated four months ago in an attack of fervid and penniless patriotism. - "The Rough Road", William John Locke.
- He read it over three times and then, going to the washstand, took up the sponge and pressed out a lachrymal drop that fell directly over the " Faithfully yours." - "The Varmint", Owen Johnson F. R. Gruger.
- North had a man's horror of a ready feminine lachrymal gland; but it was not like Bessy to cry, and it meant something; and then she did it in a large, goddess- like way, without sniffling, or chocking, or getting her nose red, but rather with a gentle deliquescence, a harmonious melting, so that he was fain to comfort her with nearer contact, gentleness in his own sad eyes, and a pressure of her large hand. - "Drift from Two Shores", Bret Harte.