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Definition of Cough drop
1. Noun. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.
Definition of Cough drop
1. Noun. (alternative form of coughdrop) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cough Drop
Literary usage of Cough drop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"In the summer, I give up cough-drop selling, and take to gold fish. ... The best
cough-drop stall seen in the street is a kind of barrow, which can be shut ..."
2. Non-secret formulas: A Collection of Over Four Thousand Formulas and One by Thomas Michael Griffiths (1897)
"cough drop FORMULAS. The following, appearing In the Confectioners' Union, have
been found ... Medicated cough drop«. Light brown sugar 14 pounds. ..."
3. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1861)
"If the attack is accompanied by much febrile excitement and bronchitic irritation,
he prescribes a cough-drop containing a drachm of anti- monial wine and a ..."
4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1861)
"If the attack is accompanied by much febrile excitement, and bronchitis irritation,
he prescribes a cough-drop containing a drachm of antimonial wine and a ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1861)
"If the attack is accompanied by much febrile excitement, and bronchitic irritation,
he prescribes a cough-drop containing a drachm of antimonial wine and a ..."
6. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"... I gulp this horrid cough-drop down, And sigh when none can hear— I gulp this
horrid cough-drop down, And sigh, and sigh when none can hear. ..."
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