单词 | meat lozenge |
释义 | > as lemmasmeat lozenge 3. A small cake or tablet, originally diamond-shaped, of medicated or flavoured sugar, etc. to be held and dissolved in the mouth. The name is also used, e.g. in meat lozenge, for a tablet of a substance (indicated by the prefixed word) in a concentrated form. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > tablet or lozenge trochiskc1400 tablet?a1425 pastille1451 lozenge1530 table1580 troche1597 tessel1657 tabella1684 tablette1725 trochus1748 tabulate1834 lozenger1860 tabule1893 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 241/1 Losange of spyce, losange. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. viiiv Dregges & losanges made to breake winde. 1573 J. Partridge Treasurie Commodious Conceits xxvi. sig. D.j Lay on your Golde leafe..cut your Losings [1627 Loosings] Diamonde fashion, and so keepe them. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 753 The Lyuer of a Wolfe being made in the forme of a dry electuary, and giuen as a lozeng. a1625 T. Lodge Poore Mans Talentt (1881) 26 It shall not bee amiss to take a loosing of Diaphisopi or Diaireas Salomonis. 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. K3v Eate presently These lozenges, of forty crownes an ounce. 1720 J. Quincy tr. N. Hodges Loimologia viii. 224 I..kept in my Mouth some Lozenges all the while I was examining them. 1795 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1818) IX. 56 Boxes of epigrammatick lozenges. 1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 160 Talk till hoarse; Have lozenges—mind Dawson's—in your pocket. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 270/2 Meat lozenges are far preferable. meat lozenge meat lozenge n. now rare a tablet made with meat extract. ΚΠ 1839 Derby Mercury 18 Sept. 3/1 (advt.) E. and T. Taylor's concentrated meat lozenges. For sportsmen and travellers... This superior Preparation composed of the finest Meats by concentration into the small compass of common Lozenges..will afford the most nutritious sustenance, particularly to Invalids. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 270/2 Meat lozenges are far preferable. 1971 E. Carpenter Cantuar vi. vi. 404 Randall Davidson was so alarmed when he saw the ‘tottering gait’ of the Archbishop that he offered him a meat lozenge to support him. < as lemmas |
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