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6. lacrymatoire, îacrymatory (or lachrymatory ) ; one of a class of small and slender glass vessels of varying form found in sepulchers of the ancients. It seems established that in some of them, at least, the tears of f riends were coUected to be buried with the dead. (Cent. Dict)