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Medicine. A bolus; medicine in the form of a ball or large pill. Now only in Veterinary Medicine.
? A bolus, a pill = ball, n.1 10. Obsolete.
A large pill, a bolus, n.; also figurative. Obsolete.
Medicine. A medicine of round shape adapted for swallowing, larger than an ordinary pill. (Often used somewhat contemptuously.)