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eyestone
[ ahy-stohn ]
noun
- 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.
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Meanwhile a neighbor, Mrs. Wilbur, suggested putting an eyestone into Halstead's eye to get out the irritating substance.
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Anxious to try anything that might relieve Halstead's suffering, the old Squire sent me to borrow the eyestone.
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I recalled my wits sufficiently to ask whether he had an eyestone, and if he had, whether he would lend it to us.
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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.
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The woman, whose sty had been cured, opened a drawer and took out the eyestone, carefully wrapped in a piece of linen cloth.
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