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  • noun Plural form of eyesalve.

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Examples

  • For eyesalves are not useless to those who use them as they ought and when they ought.

    The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

  • And if it be true of the medicinal eyesalves of antiquity that they commonly caused the eye to smart on their first application (Tob.xi. 8, 12), "mordacia collyria,"

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

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