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cough mixture

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noun

  1. any medicine that relieves coughing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I gave Algie that cough mixture same as you said, and Malcolm he kept coughing fit to tear his throat to pieces.

From Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. Smith

Perhaps it is that McCarthy has labelled the cough mixture as the eye-wash, or sent an empty pillbox with an exhortation to take one every four hours.

From The Stark Munro Letters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The steward’s cough mixture was the only medicine I got that day.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

Will Jane remember right Their cough mixture at night?

From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Fay Inchfawn

A basin of gruel, or a glass of cough mixture?

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith

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