Word Meanings - LACHRYMAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.
Related words: (words related to LACHRYMAL)
- GLANDULAR
Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands. - GLANDULOSITY
Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - GLAND
The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the - SECRETARY
secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public - GLANDAGE
A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb. - SECRET
segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. - GLANDERED
Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu - GLANDULOUS
Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands. - LACHRYMAL
1. Of or pertaining to tears; as, lachrymal effusions. Pertaining to, or secreting, tears; as, the lachrymal gland. Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct. - SECRETNESS
1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - SECRETORY
Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. - SECRETARIAT; SECRETARIATE
The office of a secretary; the place where a secretary transacts business, keeps records, etc. - GLANDULIFEROUS
Bearing glandules. - GLANDULOSE
See GLANDULOUS - SECRETITIOUS
Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors. Floyer. - GLANDIFEROUS
Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees. - GLANDIFORM
Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland. - LACHRYMALS
Tears; also, lachrymal feelings or organs. People go to the theaters to have . . . their risibles and lachrymals set agoing. The Lutheran. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - NASOLACHRYMAL
Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct. - PLOWLAND; PLOUGLAND
the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide. (more info) 1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage. - BIGLANDULAR
Having two glands, as a plant. - JUGLANDINE
An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut . - EXCITO-SECRETORY
Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.