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- English Word Tear-thumb Definition A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
- English Word Tearer Definition One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
- English Word Tearful Definition Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.
- English Word Tearing Definition of Tear
- English Word Tearless Definition Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.
- English Word Tearpit Definition 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.
- English Word Teary Definition Wet with tears; tearful.
- English Word Teary Definition Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
- English Word Tease Definition To comb or card, as wool or flax.
- English Word Tease Definition To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
- English Word Tease Definition To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
- English Word Tease Definition To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
- English Word Tease Definition One who teases or plagues.
- English Word Teased Definition of Tease
- English Word Teasel Definition A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
- English Word Teasel Definition A bur of this plant.
- English Word Teasel Definition Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
- English Word Teasel Definition To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.
- English Word Teaseled Definition of Teasel
- English Word Teaseler Definition One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.