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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
eye-drop

also eyedrop, 1590s, "tear," from eye (n.) + drop (n.). From 1938 as "a drop for the eye." Related: Eye-dropper.

Wiktionary
eye-drop

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 eye

WordNet
eye-drop

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.