lachrymose

[Lach·ry*mose`]

A good place to see a display of lachrymose sorrow is at a funeral people sobbing openly or sniffling quietly into their hankies. To be lachrymose, in other words, is to be tearful.

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Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

Adjective S.
showing sorrow


a.
Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.


Lachrymose

Lach"ry*mose` , a. [L. lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, fr. lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to E. tear. See Tear the secretion.] Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy.
-- Lach"ry*mose`ly, adv.

Lacing

La"cing , n. 1. The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces. 2. A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts. 3. 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. 4. (Bridge Building) A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. Waddell.

Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.

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