eyedropperful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
As much as an eyedropper holds.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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?"
- "Dispense 2 or 3 eyedropperfuls of the warm oil down each ear."
Etymology
From eyedropper + -ful.