Brewer's: Electuary

Something to be licked up, a medicine made “thick and slab,” which cannot be imbibed like a liquid nor bolted like a pill, but which must be licked up like honey. (Greek, ek-leicho.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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