tear shaped (tershapt)

Having the form of a drop of water about to fall from something; drop-shaped; guttiform; piriform. tear-stained (ter's tand), a. Marked with tears; showing traces of tears or of weeping. I'll prepare My tear - stain'd eyes to see her miseries. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4. 16. tear-throatt (tar thrōt), a. [ tear1 , v., + obj. throat.] Rasping; irritating. [Rare.] Cramp, cataracts, the teare - throat cough and tisick. John Taylor, Works (1630). ( Nares .) tear-thumb (tar'thum), n. [ tear1 , v., + obj. thumb .] The name of two American (and Asiatic) species of Polygonum - P . arifolium , the halberd-leaved, and P. sagittata , the arrow- leaved tear-thumb: so called from the hooked prickles on the angles of the stem and the pet i- oles, by which the plants are partly supported. tear-up (tar'up), n. [ tear up : see tear1 , v .] An uprooting; a violent removal. teary (ter'i), a. [ tery , teárig , teár , tear: see tear2 and -y1.] 1. Full of tears; wet with tears; tearful. Whan she hym saugh she gan for sorwe anon Hire tery face atwixe hire armes hyde. But whan the stormes and the teary shoure Of hir weping was somewhat ouergone, The litel corps was grauen vnder stone. Lydgate, Story of Thebes, iii.