pastille

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pas=tille

CIDE DICTIONARY

pastille, n. [F. pastille, L. pastillusa pastus food. See Pasture, and cf. Pastel.].

•  A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.  [1913 Webster]
•  An aromatic or medicated lozenge, especially one used to soothe a sore throat; a troche.  [1913 Webster]
•  See Pastel, a crayon.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pastille, n.
1 a small sweet or lozenge.
2 a small roll of aromatic paste burnt as a fumigator etc.

Idiom

pastille-burner an ornamental ceramic container in which an aromatic pastille may be burnt.

Etymology

F f. L pastillus little loaf, lozenge f. panis loaf

ROGET THESAURUS

pastille

Fragrance

N fragrance, aroma, redolence, perfume, bouquet, essence, scent, sweet smell, aromatic perfume, agalloch, agallochium, aloes wood, bay rum, calambac, calambour, champak, horehound, lign-aloes, marrubium, mint, muskrat, napha water, olibanum, spirit of myrcia, essential oil, incense, musk, frankincense, pastil, pastille, myrrh, perfumes of Arabia, otto, ottar, attar, bergamot, balm, civet, potpourri, pulvil, nosegay, scentbag, sachet, smelling bottle, vinaigrette, eau de Cologne, toilet water, lotion, after-shave lotion, thurification, perfumer, eucalyptus oil, pinene, fragrant, aromatic, redolent, spicy, savory, balmy, scented, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, perfumed, perfumatory, thuriferous, fragrant as a rose, muscadine, ambrosial.