Crossword-Solution: LINCTUS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But they won’t look for it! Then I tried to float a little notion of mine, sort of an insurance scheme for colds; you pay so much a week, and when you’ve got a cold you get a bottle of Cough Linctus so long as you can produce a substantial sniff.

The advertisements of the summer terms for Cough Linctus were removed; the bottles of coloured water—red, green, and yellow—restored to their places; the horse announcing veterinary medicine, which my uncle, sizzling all the while, had coloured in careful portraiture of a Goodwood favourite, rewhitened; and I turned myself even more resolutely than before to Latin (until the passing of my preliminary examination enabled me to drop that), and then to mathematics and science.

When he read of “rich lucent syrops tinct with cinnamon,” he remembered a great cut-glass bottle of some cough linctus that glowed like a ruby in the shop window when the gas was lit at night.

When the affection is on the decline, we may add to the juices leeks or calamint, and the patient may get the seeds of pennyroyal and nettle, with honey, as a linctus.

About the fourth day give spoon-meats for food, with some honey; but after the seventh day we are to give a linctus of almonds and nettle-seeds, triturated in honey, or the linctus of butter and honey pounded together.