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LACRYMATORY (from Lat. lacrima, a tear)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 55 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LACRYMATORY (from See also:Lat. lacrima, a See also:tear)  , a class of small vessels of terra-See also:cotta, or, more frequently, of See also:glass, found in See also:Roman and See also:late See also:Greek tombs, and supposed to have been bottles into which mourners dropped their tears . They contained unguents, and to the use of unguents at funeral ceremonies the finding of so many of these vessels in tombs is due . They are shaped like a spindle, or a See also:flask with a See also:long small See also:neck and a See also:body in the See also:form of a bulb .

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