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Webster 1913 Edition


Eyedrop

Eye′drop′

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Noun.
A tear.
[Poetic]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Eyedrop

EY'EDROP

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Noun.
A tear.

Definition 2024


eyedrop

eyedrop

See also: eye-drop and eye drop

English

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Noun

eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

  1. (medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
  2. (poetic) A tear.
    • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, IV. v. 88:
      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.

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