1510 R. Copland tr. Kynge Appolyn of Thyre ix. sig. B.iij^v With lachrymate chekes tenderly he sayd.

1914 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 15 507 The animal..is..very somnolent..hair roughened, eyes usually lachrymate and partly closed.

1996 M. E. Lange Telling Tears Eng. Renaissance ii. 107 Lachrymate and weeping motifs are typically present.

1888 J. Hall Palæontol. N.Y. VII. 138 The cephalon shows traces of low pustules over the glabella, and upon the depressed frontal area, where they become elongate or lachrymate.

1931 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 87 46 Those [muscle-scars]..vary between the simple lachrymate shape and the subdivided tripartite condition.

1985 H. E. Bigelow N. Amer. Species Clitocybe II. 398 The spores also are sometimes obovate and lacrymate in profile.

1993 Madroño 40 181 Seeds 2–6(–8), lacrymate, slightly flattened, approximately 2 mm thick.

2000 Palynology 24 39/2 Unicellulate smooth-walled fungal spores, mostly medium-sized, spatulate to lacrimate, rarely approaching elliptical.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Lachrymate, to lament, to bewaile.

1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 15 For ev'ry one did taxe this Virgins Fate, And her sad sorrowes caus'd them Lachrymate.

1782 W. Stevenson Candid Animadversions 151 In this view (that of lacrymating for loss of business, in consequence of innovations which the witty complimenter censures and condemns) Dr. Stevenson's conduct seem to have been honest, generous, and humane.

1895 Jrnl. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 3 114 Intensely penetrant odor, causing the eye to lachrymate.

1920 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Nov. 702/2 63 per cent. complete cures, that is, not lacrymating even in a keen wind.

1962 W. K. McEwen in H. Davson Eye III. x. 272 In man there is the added ability to weep, or lacrimate, which is an excessive outpouring of the lacrimal gland.

2007 BioScience 57 615 We present the first unequivocal evidence that crocodilians lacrimate during meals and that they do so in a peculiar fashion.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lachrymate,..to drop with moisture.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Yy3 Whether Poplars lachrymate into the river Padus, there making Amber by their coition, as Dioscorides and many of his followers believe, we shall hereafter determine it.

1805 tr. K. L. Willdenow Princ. Bot. & Veg. Physiol. vi. 342 In warm climates the vine does not lacrymate; for there the leaves can unfold themselves instantly, and the sap of course is properly digested.

1837 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 48 116 The eyelids may be attacked with ulcers and everted, through which the obscure and lacrymating eye appears rounder, larger, and more prominent.

1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Dec. 801/2 Certain bromine organic compounds have been extensively used by the Germans in asphyxiating and lacrymating shells.

1938 B. Mayne Graphic Reprod. Life Cycle Malaria Parasite 5 Irritation of the cornea and conjunctiva (squinting, lacrimating, rubbing of eyes).

1964 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 58 1056/1 Tension in lacrimating patients is more easily measured with the Schiøtz tonometer.

2012 M. J. Burns & C. H. Linden in Lippincott's Man. Toxicol. lxxvii. 362 Victims of lacrimating agents may be treated and released if there is no significant pulmonary toxicity.