Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
tear (drop of liquid from the eye).
Etymologies
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tear + -like
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Examples
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He enters jewelers 'shops and examines trinkets -- serpents with ruby eyes curled in gold on beds of golden leaves with emerald dews upon them; pearls, pear-shaped and tearlike, brought up by swart, glittering divers, seven fathom deep, at Tuticorin or in the Persian Gulf; rubies and sapphires mined in Burmese Ava, and diamonds from Borneo and Brazil.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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