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n. - Shedding tears.

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Usage examples (13)
  • This pellicle is also said to have a connection with the heart, which arrangement furnishes a decidedly curious explanation of the mechanism of sympathetic and maudlin...
  • Chronic poisoning (iodism) is characterized by coryza, salivation, and lachrymation, frontal headache, loss of appetite, marked mental depression, acne of the face and...
  • It may be so; and if it were, he had by that time got pretty well over the lachrymation of their parting.
  • The closure of the eye and the lachrymation are quite involuntary, and so is the disturbance of the heart.
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