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A tear (Shakespeare)
Answer for the clue "A tear (Shakespeare) ", 8 letters:
eye-drop
Word definitions for eye-drop in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context poetic English) a tear 2 (context in the plural English) a saline liquid, used to administer medication to the eye n. 1 (context poetic English) a tear 2 (context in the plural English) a saline liquid, used to administer medication to the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also eyedrop , 1590s, "tear," from eye (n.) + drop (n.). From 1938 as "a drop for the eye." Related: Eye-dropper .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a drop from an eye dropper [syn: eyedrop ]
Usage examples of eye-drop.
With a passionate haste, she looked around her at the crowd, with eyes as smarting, unseeing, and tearful as if an oculist had put caustic eye-drops into them, and all the people began to move, shuffle, and walk out of the room, leaving her at last alone, behind half-closed doors.