An electuary.

A medicinal conserve or paste, consisting of a powder or other ingredient mixed with honey, preserve, or syrup of some kind.

A thick sweet liquid; esp. one consisting of a concentrated solution of sugar in water (or other… Such a liquid medicated, or used as a vehicle for…

A linctus.

A preserve or pickle; a conserve, electuary.

attributive, as licking-bout; licking-medicine n. Obsolete an electuary. licking-place n. U.S. = lick, n. 2; so licking-pond.

‘Old term for a linctus, or form of medicine of a semifluid consistence, which is licked off the spoon’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

= linctus, n.

A medicine so taken.

A linctus.

A medicine to be licked up with the tongue.