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lohock

lohock is the obsolete spelling of lohoch.

Meaning of lohoch

Noun

lohoch (plural lohochs)

  1. A medicine in a soft form taken by licking; a lambative, a linctus.
    • We may obtain, then, a just idea of the constitution of this liquid [milk], if we look upon it as a soft, liquid substance, a kind of loch,^* in which caseine, sugar, &c., are dissolved, and in which the fatty or oily substance is distributed in small, rounded atoms. [Footnote *: Loch, or lohoch...1859, Al[fred François] Donné, “Of Professional Nurses”, in Mothers and Infants, Nurses and Nursing. […], Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, →OCLC, page 67

Forms of lohock

plurallohocks

Questions about lohock

What is lohock the obsolete spelling of?
Lohock is the obsolete spelling of lohoch.

Words near lohock in the dictionary

  1. Lohmeyers
  2. Lohmiller
  3. Lohmillers
  4. lohoch
  5. lohochs
  6. lohock
  7. lohocks
  8. Lohorung
  9. Lohr
  10. Lohri
  11. Lohrs

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