See also: eye-drop and eye drop

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

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eyedrop (plural eyedrops)

  1. (medicine) Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
  2. (poetic) A tear.
    • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, []”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], line 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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