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• eye-drop
• eye drop

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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