Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An earring, especially one with a pendant.
- n. Liquid medicine administered into the ear.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ornamental pendant to an ear-ring; an ear-ring with a pendant.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A pendant for the ear; an earring.
- n. (Bot.) A species of primrose. See Auricula.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an earring with a pendant ornament
Etymologies
- ear + drop (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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 queen has jewels in her hair, a pearl eardrop, and two necklaces, one fitting closely to the neck, the other falling over the breast.”
“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.”
“THE FAN: _ (Folding together, rests against her left eardrop) _ Have you forgotten me?”
“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.”
“Each eardrop was a single turquoise, almost as large, and quite as clear in colour, as a hedge-sparrow's egg.”
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Ear Ear!
Ear words and phrases. A companion piece to b-see--the-eyes-have-it-b and the-nose-knows.
earmuffs, earmuffed, earmark, earring, earful, earphones, earbuds, earloop, earworm, earpiece, earplugs, ear-rent and 109 more...
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