Definition of Cough drop

1. Noun. A medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat.

Exact synonyms: Pastil, Pastille, Troche
Generic synonyms: Lozenge

Definition of Cough drop

1. Noun. (alternative form of coughdrop) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cough Drop

couchless
couchlike
couchside
coude
coude system
coude telescope
coudee
coudees
cougarlike
cougars
cough
cough drop (current term)
cough fracture
cough mixture
cough mixtures
cough out
cough reflex
cough suppressant
cough syrup
cough syrups
cough up
coughdrop
coughdrops
coughed
coughed up
cougher

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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