lachrymoseadj.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 264 As for wax, its begotten of the lachrymose and gummose parts of plants.

1836 M. J. Berkeley in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. ii. 94 Gills broad, the edges often lachrymose, ventricose, adnexed, emarginate or adnate rather irregular.

1902 G. Massee European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae 227 Hypholoma hydrophilum differs in having fuscous-cinnamon lachrymose gills.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Lacrymose, full of Tears, sorrowful.

1797 Posthumous Daughter II. lxxx. 216 She is so lacrymose, I really do not think she can appear below these two hours.

1818 T. L. Peacock Nightmare Abbey i. 14 A very lacrymose and morbid gentleman, of some note in the literary world.

1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians II. xxi. 176 The eyes that were looking so gentle and lachrymose but now, flame with sudden wrath.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 383 Disease of this nature is sometimes attended with lachrymose depression.

1934 D. Thomas Let. 2 May (1987) 121 The girl who thinks me jolly would be very much surprised if, tousled and red-eyed, livered and lachrymose, I was to walk in now.

1986 O. S. Card Speaker for Dead vi. 106 In a moment you'll either be asleep, dead, or lacrimose.

2013 Oldie Apr. 19/3 Remarking on the lachrymose tendencies of Liverpudlians.

1813 Drakard's Paper 21 Feb. 54/1 Mr. Sinclair sang some lachrymose songs very prettily.

1822 M. A. Kelty Osmond I. 89 I want something now in the way of sentiment; tender, lachrymose.

1840 Citizen Apr. 450/1 A little child, who would very much have preferred going to sleep to being thus dragged on the stage to hear a lachrymose chant.

1884 Athenæum 15 Nov. 635/2 The new comedy..is more than a little lachrymose.

1909 Musical Times Mar. 172/1 In these, as well as in two other songs of a less lachrymose character, the composer is his own author.

1988 D. Hay Renaissance Ess. ix. 180 Bawdy and lachrymose tales, many of them derived from the heroic cycles of Charlemagne and Arthur.

2003 New Yorker 28 July 12/2 Depeche Mode crooned Martin Gore's lachrymose lyrics..for more than twenty years.

1843 Graham's Mag. June 335 Simple nymphs and swains..husked the golden corn, or bound the lachrymose onion wreath-wise upon its supporting wisp of straw.

1852 L. Evans tr. Lucilius in Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia & Lucilius 304 The tear-producing onion also, with its lacrimose shells in due succession.

1915 San Antonio (Texas) Light 5 Dec. 24/8 German shells charged with lachrymose gas have been brought to the Paris Municipal Laboratory for exhibition.

1917 A. G. Empey Tommy's Dict. Trenches in Over the Top 310 ‘Tear Shell.’ Trench name for the German lachrymose chemical shell which makes the eyes smart.

1941 Bee (Danville, Virginia) 16 Aug. 1/2 Lachrymose gas..was principally responsible for the defeat of the mob.

1973 New Scientist 14 June 703 The price of the lachrymose bulb has so rocketed that hamburger chains have removed the customary supply of free raw onion from their counters.

2011 Jrnl. Chromatogr. A. 1218 6820/1 It is easy to handle PFB-Br except it is lachrymose.