lachrymatory

ADJECTIVE
  1. relating to or prompting tears
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How To Use lachrymatory In A Sentence

  • It puts forward the idea that Earth is a globular allium and "pain and fear" are the lachrymatory agents that provoke all the tears. Readers recommend songs about vegetables: The results
  • The captivating tear bottle tradition dates back nearly 3,000 years, when mourners were known to collect their tears in a lachrymatory and bury them with loved ones to express honor and devotion.
  • In order to counter the use of lachrymatory compounds by the enemy, compounds which penetrated the helmet insufficiently to cause serious casualties but sufficiently to hamper the individual by lachrymation, goggles were introduced in which the eyes were protected by rims of rubber sponge. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
  • The lachrymatory factor from an onion activates the nerve endings of pain fibres in the top layer of the cornea, leading to increased production and release of tears.
  • (lachrymatory, sternutatory, and, above all, vesicatory, of which yperite is the most dangerous); second, asphyxiants of which the most deadly is phosgene; third, those affecting the nervous system. Ferdinand Édouard Buisson - Nobel Lecture
  • It is said that Nero used a lachrymatory or small glass vessel to keep his tears in.
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