Eyedrop
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Medicine to be administered to the eyes in the form of a drop of liquid.
- 2 a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists wordnet
- 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 a drop from an eye dropper wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"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."
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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