Bolus [noun]

Experience is the grand spiritual Doctor; and with him Teufelsdrockh has now been long a patient, swallowing many a bitter bolus.

Nor shall I tarry at the palace for the physician, but go straight on without bolus, simples or pills, a very Mercury for speed.

Ordered a bolus with rhubarb and calomel, to be taken in the morning, and ℥ii.

Nature, tenderest of leeches,—no bolus of hers is pleasanter medicament than her ruddy strawberries.

As she had often done in her late illness, Zenobia opened her mouth at the word of command, and swallowed the infernal bolus.

The food, which is made into a bolus, is moved down to the middle region of the gut, and there digestion takes place.

With a little silver spoon he took some dark-looking confection out of the jar, made a bolus of it, and gave it to me.

The foreigner cannot refuse the bolus thus artfully forced down his throat.

I gulped down this bolus of conscience with the help of a draught of wine, and it did me good.

If I were you, I would send to your brother Quinn for a bolus to clear your brain.'