troche
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Josh’s testosterone troche: A manifesto against gambling manifestos.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014
Mike’s testosterone troche: In 1964, Packers halfback Paul Hornung had the worst kicking season of all time.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014
"Have a troche, Kronborg," he said, producing some.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
Tab′loid, a small tablet containing a certain definite portion of some drug, a troche or lozenge.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
"A cold and frog-like place, this, for a lady's walk, Miss PENDRAGON," he said, hastily swallowing a bronchial troche to neutralize the damp air admitted in speaking.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various
After undergoing infusions at a clinic, he said, he transitioned during the pandemic to taking small lozenges called troches at home.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Medicines are directed to be administered internally in the form of decoctions, infusions, injections, pills, tablets, troches, capsules, powders, potions and inhalations; and externally, as lotions, ointments, plasters, etc.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
They are leaves, herbs, roots, barks, seeds, flowers, juices, distilled waters, syrups, juleps, decoctions, oils, electuaries, conserves, preserves, lohocks, ointments, plasters, poultices, troches, and pills.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
Hence its use for forming troches, and the like purposes, in preference to the other gums.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
It is an ingredient in the pectoral syrup, pectoral troches, the compound lime waters, decoction of the woods, compound powder of gum tragacanth, lenitive electuary, and theriaca.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
