Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An earring, especially one with a pendant.
- noun Liquid medicine administered into the ear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ornamental pendant to an ear-ring; an ear-ring with a pendant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pendant for the ear; an earring.
- noun (Bot.) A species of primrose. See
Auricula .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Medicine to be administered to theear . - noun archaic A
pendant for the ear; anearring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an earring with a pendant ornament
Etymologies
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Examples
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The queen has jewels in her hair, a pearl eardrop, and two necklaces, one fitting closely to the neck, the other falling over the breast.
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We have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the bloom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as a small sugar-loaf, and of every variety of shade, to red and green.
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We have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the blossom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
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THE FAN: _ (Folding together, rests against her left eardrop) _ Have you forgotten me?
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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We have found the wild tulip, the primrose, the lupine, the eardrop, the larkspur, and creeping hollyhock, and a beautiful flower resembling the bloom of the beech tree, but in bunches as large as a small sugarloaf, and of every variety of shade, to red and green.
The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West Emerson Hough 1890
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Each eardrop was a single turquoise, almost as large, and quite as clear in colour, as a hedge-sparrow's egg.
Vixen, Volume III. 1875
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