Hail with tears in one's eyes? (5)
I believe the answer is:
greet
'hail' is the definition.
(I know that hail is a more specific form of the action greet)
'with tears in one's eyes?' is the wordplay.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'tears in' becomes 'gree' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'one's' becomes 'solitary's' (a solitary thing can mean only one thing).
'eyes?' means to look at the middle letters (I've seen 'eye' mean this (eye can mean the centre of something)).
The centre of 'solitarys' is 't'.
'gree' put next to 't' is 'GREET'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for greet that I've seen before include "Make welcome" , "Hail, salute" , "Give welcome to" , "Receive - salute" , "Acknowledge" .)