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A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

Containing two trochees.

A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.

Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists.

physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by che…

mbers, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

a trochee.

which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zoöl.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.

thematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

An aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.

o constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andrews.

en invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.

arly Roman satirists, consisting of three iambics and an extra syllable followed by three trochees, as in the line: --Thê queen | wâs isn | thê kistch | ên eatîng | bread ând | honêy.

scover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit.

ents with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.