noun.
A drug mixed with sugar and water or honey into a pasty mass suitable for oral administration.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In pharmacy, a medicine composed of powders or other ingredients, incorporated with some conserve, honey, or syrup, originally made in a form to be licked by the patient.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. See the note under confection.