Word Meanings - TEARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wet with tears; tearful. 2. Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

Related words: (words related to TEARY)

• DROPSICAL
  1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
• DROPSICALNESS
  State of being dropsical.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• DROPSIED
  Diseased with drops. Shak.
• DROPSY
  An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. (more info) idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf.
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• TEARFUL
  Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.
• CONSISTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• INCONSISTENCY
  1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
• INCONSISTENTNESS
  Inconsistency.
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.
• SELF-CONSISTENT
  Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.
• SELF-CONSISTENCY
  The quality or state of being self-consistent.
• KNOCK-OUT DROPS
  Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc.
• LADIES' EARDROPS
  The small-flowered Fuchsia , and other closely related species.