tear1 (tɪə) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See tears a drop of the secretion of the lacrimal glands |
| 2. | something shaped like a hanging drop: a tear of amber |
| [Old English tēar, related to Old Frisian, Old Norse tār, Old High German zahar, Greek dakri] | |
| 'tearless1 | |
| —adj | |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |