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horse-drench en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic) A dose of medicine for a horse.
The most soueraigne Prescription in Galen, is but Emperickqutique; and to this Preseruatiue, of no better report
then a Horse-drench.
c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
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(archaic) The appliance by which the dose is administered.
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