Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
eye-wash . - noun The fluid refractive media of the eye; the aqueous and vitreous humor. See
eye .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.
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- noun medicine A
wash orlotion forapplication to the eyes.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm weeping a combination of both big fat tears of sorrow and squirtings of gleeful hysterical laughter-induced eyewater.
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It was ever his mammy's wish to have a priest in the family and with her now close to dying from an over-affinity with Paddy's eyewater, Seamais is inclined to indulge her.
Priest in Kilvarnet 2010
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An invaluable eyewater for weak eyes and all kinds of sore and inflamed eyes.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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C. began to administer eyewater to a croud of at least 50 applicants.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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I do not recommend its use as eyewater, though an old farmer assures me it has undoubted virtues when thus applied.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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I do not recommend its use as eyewater, though an old farmer assures me it has undoubted virtues when thus applied.
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations.
The Gilded Age, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations.
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I found a handkerchief tied close, but not too tightly, round the eyes for a whole night, to be a more effectual remedy for this disagreeable complaint than any application of eyewater; and my companions being induced to try the same experiment, derived equal benefit from it.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 William Edward Parry 1822
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Some eyewater and they all left us at 2 P.M. and returned to the
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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