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(medicine, obsolete or historical) A medicinal paste made with ladanum and used for breathing trouble.
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(obsolete, medicine) Any of various decoctions of bark used as various remedies
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(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
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(intransitive) To grow or become white.
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A preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, formerly used to treat diarrhea in infants.
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A medicine supplied in a form that can be chewed.
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A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
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A small, medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to relieve coughing symptoms temporarily.
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A medicine or medication used to treat coughs, usually in liquid or syrup form.
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A liquid used to ease a sore throat and possibly suppress excess coughing.
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Alternative form of cough drop [A small, medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to relieve coughing symptoms temporarily.]
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A device that removes lice.
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(medicine) A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants, later made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerine mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
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A liquid produced by infusing dillseed in water (generally used medicinally, particularly to treat colic or flatulence in infants).
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(medicine, dated) A powder of ipecac and opium formerly used to treat colds and fevers.
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(medicine, historical) A balsam, or popular nostrum, of oil of turpentine, tincture of guaiacum, etc.
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(obsolete) A medicine made of oils mixed with syrups; a linctus.
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(pharmacy) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
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(medicine, dated) An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, formerly used as a lotion to treat inflammation.
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A home remedy to treat babies suffering from colic or teething problems.
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(medicine, dated) A remedy for coughs and stomach complaints, made from boiling water and gum arabic.
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(historical) Any of several poisons used for murder, but especially arsenic and, to a lesser extent, thallium.
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(pharmacy) A medicated gelatin tablet or lozenge; a gelatinous pill.
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(historical, medicine) A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken.
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Alternative form of lambative [(archaic) A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.]
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A linctus; medicine taken by licking with the tongue.
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(medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.
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Obsolete form of lozenge. [(shapes, heraldry) A quadrilateral with sides of equal length (rhombus), having two acute and two obtuse angles.]
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A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
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(medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
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(pharmacology) A pill designed to disintegrate in the mouth.
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A candy- or sweet-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases substances that soothe a sore throat, and sometimes vapours to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
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Damage to the floors or walls of houses when pyrite in the foundations oxidizes and expands.
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A syrup made from snail slime for medicinal use.
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(obsolete, medicine) A liquid medicine for treating indigestion.
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(alchemy, historical) A kind of powder supposed to be able to cure a wound if applied to the weapon that inflicted it, or to a portion of the bloodied clothes of the wounded person.
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liquid medicine made from a flowering plant, Psychotria ipecacuanha, used as an emetic; ipecac
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A medicated lozenge or hard electuary.
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(medicine) Ointment that is applied inside an oral cavity or throat.
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(rare) Of or belonging to a (wine or oil) press.
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A lozenge; a cough drop.
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(obsolete) A kind of tablet or lozenge; a troche.
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