Brewer's: Deer

Supposed by poets to shed tears. The drops, however, which fall from their eyes are not tears, but an oily secretion from the so-called tear-pits.

A poor sequestered stag ... Did come to languish ... and the big round tears  Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase.

Shakespeare: As You Like It, ii. 2.

But mice and rats, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year.

Shakespeare: Lear, iii.4.

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