a. and sb. Med.; also 7–8 becchick, bechick. [ad. F. béchique, ad. L. bēchicus, a. Gr. βηχικός, f. βήξ cough.]

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  A.  adj. Tending to cure or relieve a cough.

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1678.  Salmon, Pharm. Lond., VI. ii. 813. Bechick [preparations], such as are good against Coughs, Colds, Asthma’s.

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  B.  sb. A cough medicine.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 359. The cough’s … cured by … bechicks.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVII. 595. The Lungs smoothed and moistned with Becchicks.

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