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12 CDs for FREE (plus s&h)! What are you waiting for? This great deal alone should be music to your ears. With so many titles to choose from, you?re bound to find some essential titles you just can't live without! Click for more details. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27986/165550/165550 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/27986/165550/165550"< AOL users click here </a< \-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/ Word of the Day for Monday April 1, 2002: lachrymose \LAK-ruh-mohs\, adjective: 1. Given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful. 2. Causing or tending to cause tears. At the farewell party on the boat, Joyce was surrounded by a lachrymose family. --Edna O'Brien, "She Was the Other Ireland," [1]New York Times, June 19, 1988 I promise to do my best, and if at any time my resolution lapses, pen me a few fierce vitriolic words and you shall receive by the next post a lachrymose & abject apology in my most emotional hand writing. --Rupert Brooke, letter to James Strachey, July 7, 1905 The game is perpetuated by the sons in a sometimes vicious sibling rivalry that inevitably subsides into lachrymose reconciliation. --Arthur Gelb and Barbara Gelb, [2]O'Neill: Life With Monte Cristo Meanwhile, a lachrymose new waltz, "After The Ball Is Over," was sweeping the nation. --Benjamin Welles, [3]Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist _________________________________________________________ Lachrymose is from Latin lacrimosus, from lacrima, "tear." References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399146091/ref%3Dnosim/lexico 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312174403/ref%3Dnosim/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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