Sentence:  '[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into <WSD>tears</WSD> all over us because "it was wicked to dress us like charity children".nb...' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (liquid) A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.