Eyedrop

Alternative forms

• eye-drop
• eye drop

Full definition of eyedrop

Noun

1. Medicine to be administered to the eyes.
2. (poetic) A tear.
• 1597, William Shakespeare, , IV. v. 88: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.