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a small glass or earthen vessel, formerly supposed to have been used among the ancient heathens to receive the tears of surviving relatives or friends, wept for the dead, but now shown to have been merely pots of ointment or perfume, which, with their contents, were buried with the urns and ashes of the deceased. SEE TEARS.