Vocabulary : Lachrymal to Lacinia

Lachrymal : Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. ;; Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. ;; Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
Lachrymals : Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs.
Lachrymary : Containing, or intended to contain, tears; lachrymal.
Lachrymate : To weep.
Lachrymation : The act of shedding tears; weeping.

Lachrymatory : 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.
Lachrymiform : Having the form of a tear; tear-shaped.
Lachrymose : Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
Lacing : of Lace ;; The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces. ;; A lace; specifically (Mach.), a thong of thin leather for uniting the ends of belts. ;; 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. ;; A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.
Lacinia : One of the narrow, jagged, irregular pieces or divisions which form a sort of fringe on the borders of the petals of some flowers. ;; A narrow, slender portion of the edge of a monophyllous calyx, or of any irregularly incised leaf. ;; The posterior, inner process of the stipes on the maxillae of insects.

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