Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mixture containing sodium bicarbonate and spearmint.

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Examples

  • The little elderly gentleman who entered was so perfectly the family solicitor as really to have no distinguishing personality at all, beyond a great kindliness of heart and a weakness for soda-mint lozenges.

    The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 05 1928

  • They kept flat bottles of soda-mint tablets in their desks, and exchanged them hourly.

    Saturday's Child Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • There were prayer-books and guide-books, a Bath bun, a bottle of soda-mint tablets, a church calendar, a bit of gray frizz that Aunt

    A Cathedral Courtship Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • There's nothing but one quinine pill and a soda-mint drop in it, and if there's anything in the music cure I don't think I'll have it filled again.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887

  • On them stood his stores of flour, bacon, lard, talcum-powder, kerosene, baking-powder, soda-mint tablets, pepper, salt, and Olivo-Cremo Emulsion for chaps and roughness of the hands and face.

    Options O. Henry 1886

  • It sounds ridiculous to speak of dependence upon soda-mint and pepsin tablets degenerating into an incurable habit, but there are some people to whom they are as necessary after each meal as were snuff and quids of tobacco to the old people seventy years ago.

    The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

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