eyedropperful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From eyedropper + -ful.
Noun
[edit]eyedropperful (plural eyedropperfuls or eyedroppersful)
- As much as an eyedropper holds.
- 1991, Gary Wulfsberg, Principles Of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, page 424:
- In the hood try holding the stopper from a bottle of concentrated HCl over a watch glass in which you have put an eyedropperful of pyridine.
- 1993, Francis F. Seeburger, Addiction and Responsibility: An Inquiry Into the Addictive Mind, page 3:
- What is it like, for example, to see one's own life "measured out in eyedroppersful of morphine solution," as Burroughs puts it for the junky?
- 2012, Rosemary Gladstar, Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide:
- Dispense 2 or 3 eyedropperfuls of the warm oil down each ear.