See also: Eye Water

English

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Etymology

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From eye +‎ water.

Noun

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eyewater (usually uncountable, plural eyewaters)

  1. (medicine) A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.
  2. (archaic, slang) Gin.
  3. (Caribbean, Jamaica) Tears; water cried from the eyes.

References

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  • (gin): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eyewater”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)