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Definition of Dragees
1. dragee [n] - See also: dragee
Medical Definition of Dragees
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dragees
Literary usage of Dragees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manufacture of Preserved Foods and Sweetmeats: A Handbook of All the by A. Hausner (1902)
"Hence dragees are divided into fruit-dragees and bonbon-dragees. ... dragees made
from a bonbon material cannot be coated in this apparatus, ..."
2. The Complete Confectioner, Or, Housekeeper's Guide: To a Simple and Speedy by Hannah Glasse, Maria Wilson (1800)
"To make Coffee dragees. Take paste, made in the same way as for the last di;agees,
or which you have remaining, fill it Avith powdered sugar,'' take some ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"When these dragees are placed in water they dissolve slowly, with evolution of
carbonic acid ; and, if we believe the statement of the inventor, ..."
4. American Observer Medical Monthly (1875)
"These dragees become rapidly disintegrated in the stomach. Among the cases already
published we find the following :— In one case, a woman aged 62, ..."
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