"troche" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”) because the shape of the original tablets were circular.",
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    {
      "form": "troches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, page 260",
          "text": "At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tragecanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilling water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shall finde it in such a Jelly as Physician, call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Paste, and that Paste into little Cakes called Troches.",
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        {
          "ref": "1909, A. Emil Hiss, The International Formulary, volume 1, page 515",
          "text": "The Germ. Pharm. states that the troches (pastilles) are to be made by compression or by massing with a suitable excipient, and forming into troches.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2015, Robert P. Shrewsbury, Applied Pharmaceutics in Contemporary Compounding, page 215",
          "text": "The troches are weighed and the average weight per troche for that base is calculated.",
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        "A lozenge; a cough drop."
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          "cough drop",
          "cough drop"
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɹoʊ.ki/",
      "tags": [
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      "homophone": "trochee"
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  "word": "troche"
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      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”) because the shape of the original tablets were circular.",
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        "plural"
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          "ref": "1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, page 260",
          "text": "At night when you go to bed, take two drams of fine Gum Tragecanth, put it into a Galli-pot, and put half a quarter of a pint of any distilling water fitting the purpose you would make your Troches for, to it, cover it, and the next morning you shall finde it in such a Jelly as Physician, call Mussilage, with this you may (with a little pains taking) make any Pouder into Paste, and that Paste into little Cakes called Troches.",
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          "text": "The Germ. Pharm. states that the troches (pastilles) are to be made by compression or by massing with a suitable excipient, and forming into troches.",
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          "text": "The troches are weighed and the average weight per troche for that base is calculated.",
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