Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lachrymose

Lachrymose , adjective

[Latin lacrymosus, better lacrimosus, from lacrima, lacruma (also badly spelt lachryma) a tear, for older dacrima, akin to English tear. See Tear the secretion.]

Generating or shedding tears; given to shedding tears; suffused with tears; tearful.
You should have seen his lachrymose visnomy. — Lamb