Crossword clues for troche
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See Table.]
A small table or flat surface.
A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
(Pharm.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Wiktionary
n. A lozenge; a cough drop.
WordNet
n. a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat [syn: cough drop, pastille, pastil]
Wikipedia
For the medicinal lozenge, see Pastille.
''' Troche ''' is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.
Usage examples of "troche".
Greek dimeter, but also containing the echo of troche, a circular pill or tablet taken as an anodyne, its shape derived from trokhos, the wheel.
Lozenges or troches containing 3 grains of Elm flavoured with methyl salicylate are used as a demulcent.
The troches you left drying I think should be ready now, and the dried herbs for the decoction you spoke of, I have ground to fine powder ready for use tomorrow.
And, then, suppose any of the singers should ever want to eat fennel, or peppermints, or Brown's troches, and pass them round!