Word Meanings - DELACERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tearing in pieces. Bailey.

Related words: (words related to DELACERATION)

• TEAR
  A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct
• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• TEARER
  One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
• TEARPIT
  A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
• TEARY
  1. Wet with tears; tearful. 2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
• TEARFUL
  Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.
• TEARLESS
  Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.
• TEAR-FALLING
  Shedding tears; tender. "Tear-falling pity." Shak.
• TEAR-THUMB
  A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
• PETROSTEARINE
  A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
• TOTEAR
  To tear or rend in pieces. Chaucer.
• STEARATE
  A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
• APIECES
  In pieces or to pieces. "Being torn apieces." Shak.
• STEARYL
  The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.
• STEARIN
  One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting
• TRISTEARATE
  Tristearin.
• STEARONE
  The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, 2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
• STEAROPTENE
  The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elæoptene.
• TRISTEARIN
  See STEARIN
• STEARRHEA
  seborrhea.
• WHEATEAR
  A small European singing bird . The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird,