lachrymatory

[Low Latin lachrymatorium; from Lat. lacrima, lacryma =a tear; Fr. lachrymatoire.] A fanciful term applied to small gla ve els, in shape like the a lab a str on, but with a longer neck, and said to bo intended for holding tears consecrated to the dead; but their real use was to hold perfumes or ointments. "No lamps, included liquors, lachrymatories , or tear bottles, attended these rural urnes, either as sacred unto the Manes, or pa ionate expre ions of their surviving friends."-Browne: Urne- burial , ch. iii.