eyedropperful

plural eyedropperfuls · plural eyedroppersful

1. As much as an eyedropper holds.

   Dispense 2 or 3 eyedropperfuls of the warm oil down each ear.

   2012, Rosemary Gladstar, Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide

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   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.

   1991, Gary Wulfsberg, Principles Of Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry, page 424

   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?

   1993, Francis F. Seeburger, Addiction and Responsibility: An Inquiry Into the Addictive Mind, page 3