lachrymate

present singular third person lachrymates · participle present lachrymating · participle past lachrymated · past lachrymated · alternative lacrimate

1. literarymedicineTo cry or weep.

comparative more lachrymate · superlative most lachrymate · alternative lacrimate

1. biologyHaving the shape of a tear.

   The cephalon shows traces of low pustules over the glabella, and upon the depressed frontal area, where they become elongate or lachrymate, sometimes anastomosing, leaving elongate depressions between them; […]

   1888, James Hall with John M[ason] Clarke, “Phaëthonides cyclurus, n. sp.”, in Palæontology (Geological Survey of the State of New York), volumes VII ([…] Trilobites and Other Crustacea […]), Albany, N.Y.: Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, →OCLC, page 138

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   The location of the ventral muscle-scars is normal. In the dorsal valve, however, there is considerable variation, both in the shape of the scars and in their degree of depression into the shell; those of the outer pair vary between the simple lachrymate shape (Pl. V, fig. 6) and the subdivided tripartite condition such as is seen frequently in Crurithyris urei and Crurithyris magnispina.

   1931, T[homas] N[eville] George, “Ambocœlia Hall”, in The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume LXXXVII, London: Geological Society of London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46

   Lateral furrow 1p situated slightly in front of mid-length, narrow and deep, directed inward and backward and reaching the occipital furrow, deepest close to axial furrow; basal lobe lachrymate in outline, moderately convex.

   1967 June 28, H[arry] B[lackmore] Whittington, K[enton] S[tewart] W[all] Campbell, “Rhinotarion sentosum n. sp.”, in Silicified Silurian Trilobites from Maine (Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; volume 135, number 9), Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Comparative Zoology, →OCLC, page 458, column 2

2. literaryraremedicineStained or filled with tears.

   Et quant il fut hoꝛs du peril de mer il ſe tourna vers celle part ou les nefz ⸜ et ſes gens eſtoient perilz ⸜ en plourãt tendꝛement et en diſant

   1510 [c. 1482], [Louis Cruse] (Middle French translation), translated by Robert Coplande, “How Kynge Appolyn of Thyre Sayled towarde the Cyte of Terme […]”, in Kynge Appolyn of Thyre, London: […] Wynkyn de worde, →OCLC, signature B.iij., verso

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   The animal does not become seriously ill, but scratches itself vigorously, is either very restless or very somnolent or both alternately, hair roughened, eyes usually lachrymate and partly closed.

   1914 November, Chester H. Elliott, “The Antigenic Properties of Glycoproteins”, in Ludvig Hektoen, Edwin O[akes] Jordan, editors, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 15, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 507

   Lachrymate and weeping motifs are typically present throughout all the volumes and display certain regular features, but they do not form a unilateral or monolithic image.

   1996, Marjory E. Lange, “Tears in a Woman’s Voice, a Rider”, in Telling Tears in the English Renaissance (Studies in the History of Christian Thought; 70), Leiden; New York, N.Y.; Cologne: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 2 (“Out of My Pen No Inke but Teares”: The Poetic Miscellanies), page 107

   Synonyms: moist, tearful, teary, cryey, crysome, lachrymose, larmoyant, maudlin