Definitions for eyestone

eyestone eye·stone

Spelling: [ahy-stohn]
IPA: /ˈaɪˌstoʊn/

Eyestone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in eyestone (eeenosty).

Definitions for eyestone

noun

  1. a small calcareous body, flat on one side and convex on the other, passed between the eye and the eyelid to bring out cinders or other foreign matter.

Origin of eyestone

First recorded in 1670-80; eye + stone

Examples for eyestone

Anxious to try anything that might relieve Halstead's suffering, the old Squire sent me to borrow the eyestone.

I recalled my wits sufficiently to ask whether he had an eyestone, and if he had, whether he would lend it to us.

The woman, whose sty had been cured, opened a drawer and took out the eyestone, carefully wrapped in a piece of linen cloth.

He gave me a little glass vial half full of some liquid and told me to drop the eyestone into it when I should get it.

Halstead's eye was so much inflamed that we had no little trouble in getting the eyestone under the lid.

Meanwhile a neighbor, Mrs. Wilbur, suggested putting an eyestone into Halstead's eye to get out the irritating substance.

When he examined Halstead's eye, he found the eyestone near the outer canthus, and near it the irritating bit of wheat beard.

Word Value for eyestone
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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