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Definition of Posset
1. Noun. Sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer.
Definition of Posset
1. n. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly.
2. v. t. To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood.
Definition of Posset
1. Noun. A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood ¹
3. Verb. To treat with possets; to pamper ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Posset
1. a hot, spiced drink [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posset
Literary usage of Posset
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1900)
"SACK-posset. IN the evening of the wedding-day, just before the company retired,
the sack-posset was eaten. Of this posset the bride and bridegroom were ..."
2. Publications by English Historical Society (1841)
"... talem in Britannia temporibus suis statuii, ut mulier onusta auro cum pumi
párvulo, ubicumque vellet, ire posset indemnis;' vol.ip 128. ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"A charming letter from his father to thia fiancee, and stone posset-pot, which
is still preserved as a family heirloom. ..."
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