pastille

Definitions

• A soft flavoured sweet/candy.
• A medicinal pill, originally compressed herbs. A throat pastille is a large candy-like lozenge, which, when sucked, releases oils to soothe a sore throat and sometimes vapors to help unblock the nose or sinuses.
• A small granular half-spheroid piece of material.
• A small cone of charcoal and aromatic substances, burned either as incense, or as a means of diffusing an agreeable odour.
• A paper tube containing a firework that causes a small wheel to rotate in burning.
• (art) (alt form) pastel