n. n. plural The gum-disease of citrous trees; psorosis.To rend; pull apart or in pieces; make a rent or rents in: as, to tear one's clothes; to tear up a letter.To produce or effect by rending or some similar action: as, to tear a hole in one's dress.To lacerate; wound in the surface, as by the action of teeth or of something sharp rudely dragged over it: as, to tear the skin with thorns: also used figuratively: as, a heart torn with anguish; a party or a church torn by factions.To drag or remove violently or rudely; pull or pluck with violence or effort; force rudely or unceremoniously; wrench; take by force: with from, down, out, off, etc.To pull to pieces or shreds; rend completely: as, to tear up a piece of paper; to tear up a sheet into strips.Synonyms Rip, Split, etc. See rend.To part, divide, or separate on being pulled or handled with more or less violence: as, cloth that tears readily.To move noisily and with vigorous haste or eagerness; move and act with turbulent violence; hence, to rave; rant; bluster; rage; rush violently or noisily: as, to tear out of the house.n. A rent; a fissure.n. A turbulent motion, as of water.n. A spree.n. A drop or small quantity of the limpid fluid secreted by the lacrymal gland, appearing in the eye or falling from it; in the plural, the peculiar secretion of the lacrymal gland, serving to moisten the front of the eyeball and inner surfaces of the eyelids, and on occasion to wash out the eye or free it from specks of dirt, dust, or other irritating substances.n. Hence plural Figuratively, grief; sorrow.n. Something like a tear-drop.n. In glass manufacturing, a defect, of occasional occurrence, consisting of a bit of clay from the roof or glass-pot partially vitrified in the glass. Such tears sometimes cause a glass object to fly to pieces without apparent cause.n. In the making of ornamental glass, a pear-shaped drop of colored glass applied for ornament.n. See Coix.To fill or besprinkle with or as with tears.