Eardrop vs Eyedrop - What's the difference?
eardrop | eyedrop |
Medicine to be administered to the ear.
(archaic) A pendant for the ear; an earring.
(botany) A plant of the genus Ehrendorferia in the family Papaveraceae, native to California.
Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
(poetic) A tear.
* 1597 , , IV. v. 88:
As nouns the difference between eardrop and eyedrop
is that eardrop is medicine to be administered to the ear while eyedrop is medicine to be administered to the eyes.eardrop
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (Ehrendorferia) bleeding hearteyedrop
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Alternative forms
* eye-drop * eye dropNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia eyedrop)- 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.