lacerate

• The glass would lacerate, and the scent of its own blood further inflame its starvation. —  Red As Blood
• In solitary, densely flowered catkins; bracts lacerate-fringed, each bract subtending a cup-shaped scale; stamens very numerous; anthers longer than the filaments, dark red: fertile catkins elongating to 5 or 6 inches; ovary ovoid; stigmas 3 or 4, nearly sessile, spreading Fruit.=--Capsules ovate, rough, short-stalked; seeds densely cottony Horticultural Value.=--Hardy in southern-central New England; grows rapidly in almost any soil and is readily obtainable in nurseries. —  Handbook of the Trees of New England
• It is for the interest of the masters (at least they believe it to be) to put upon such slaves iron collars and chains, to brand and crop them; to disfigure, lacerate, starve and torture them--in a word, to inflict upon them such vengeance as shall strike terror into the other slaves. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• He is, upon my honor The surgeon that has a difficult case will not only make preparations and adjustments before he begins to probe, lacerate, or cauterize, but will sometimes administer an opiate; to stupefy that sensibility which he apprehends is too keen. —  The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
• The margin of the cap is deeply and beautifully lacerate, as shown in the three other plants in Fig. 187. —  Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

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