Hypertext Webster Gateway: "troche"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tablet \Ta"blet\, n. [F. tablette, dim. of table. See {Table}.]
1. A small table or flat surface.
2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint,
draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an
inscription or a picture.
3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. [Obs.]
4. pl. A kind of pocket memorandum book.
5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were
formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
6. (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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Troche \Tro"che\ (tr[=o]"k[=e]), n. [Gr. trocho`s anything round
or circular, a wheel, properly, a runner, fr. tre`chein to
run. Cf. {Trochee}.] (Pharm.)
A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular
form.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
troche
n : a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat [syn: {cough
drop}, {pastille}, {pastil}]
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