E*piph"o*ra (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. , fr. to bring to or upon; + to bring.]

1. Med.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

2. Rhet.

The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas.

 

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