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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 the ear.
  • noun archaic A pendant for the ear; an earring.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an earring with a pendant ornament

Etymologies

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ear +‎ drop

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