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Eyedrop

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Noun
  1. 1
    Medicine to be administered to the eyes in the form of a drop of liquid.
  2. 2
    a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists wordnet
  3. 3
    A tear. poetic

    "My lord, I found the prince in the next room, / Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, / With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow / That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, / Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife / With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither."

  4. 4
    a drop from an eye dropper wordnet

Etymology

From eye + drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”). Compare also German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”).

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