teare

Noun (1)

tear (plural tears)

1. A hole or break caused by tearing.
   • A small tear is easy to mend, if it is on the seam.
2. (slang) A rampage.
   • to go on a tear

Noun (2)

tear (plural tears)

1. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
   • Big tears streamed from Lisa's eyes, rolling down her cheeks.
2. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
   • Let Araby extol her happy coast, / Her fragrant flowers, her trees with precious tears.1717, William Congreve, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, John Ozell, “Book X”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
3. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
4. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
   • Without meed of some melodious tear. Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well [...]1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, Cambridge: Printed by Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel, published 1638, page 131

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