Word Meanings - DIREMPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tearing apart; violent separation. Bp. Hall.

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• TEAR
  A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct
• TEARER
  One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• VIOLENT
  probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
• TEARPIT
  A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
• TEARY
  1. Wet with tears; tearful. 2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.
• APARTMENT
  appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
• TEARFUL
  Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.
• TEARLESS
  Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.
• VIOLENTLY
  In a violent manner.
• TEAR-FALLING
  Shedding tears; tender. "Tear-falling pity." Shak.
• TEAR-THUMB
  A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
• APART
  1. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. Others apart sat on a hill retired. Milton. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. Ps. iv. 3. 2. In a state of separation, of exclusion,
• SEPARATION
  The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation , a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect
• PETROSTEARINE
  A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
• TOTEAR
  To tear or rend in pieces. Chaucer.
• STEARATE
  A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
• STEARYL
  The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.
• BONAPARTISM
  The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.
• STEARIN
  One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting
• TRISTEARATE
  Tristearin.
• STEARONE
  The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, 2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
• STEAROPTENE
  The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; -- contrasted with elæoptene.
• BONAPARTIST
  One attached to the policy or family of Bonaparte, or of the Bonapartes.