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cough drop

alt. a small, medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to temporarily stop coughs n. a small, medicated tablet intended to be dissolved slowly in the mouth to temporarily stop coughs

WordNet
cough drop

n. a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat [syn: troche, pastille, pastil]

Usage examples of "cough drop".

Although no schoolboys were able to swim in the pool, it always had visitors: cool and active little frogs no bigger than a cough drop hopped about diligently as though practicing the art of hopping -- less frequently, big heavily breathing toads -- but always frogs, a congress of frogs, a playground of frogs, a ballet of frogs, a ball field of frogs.

As for Defence Against the Dark Arts, your marks have been generally high, Professor Lupin in particular thought you - are you quite sure you wouldn't like a cough drop, Dolores?

Apparently, Schoenberg's coldness was grating on Wiggins, too, who pushed the cough drop on which he was sucking to the rear of his mouth and said, &quot.

I gave Tom some pocket change to toss in the Cough Drop for me, and took a deep gulp-it was delicious-and then I nearly choked.

Crandall noisily chewed the cough drop and washed it down with cognac.

If she could fit a desktop computer, a printer, two boxes of disks, and the obligatory stale cough drop in the backpack, why couldnt it hold everything else?

Instead, he fished a cough drop from a box by the wheel, eyes never leaving the quiet sea.

It smelled like a cross between a skunk and a eucalyptus cough drop.

Her face he had idealized: it looked sweet and virginal, pure as a cough drop.