aspic
(noun) savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aspic (plural aspics)
A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
(obsolete, poetic) An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.
aspic (not comparable)
Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
• APICs, CISPA, ISPCA, PICAs, Spica, pacis, picas, scapi, spica
Source: Wiktionary
As"pic, n. Etym: [F. See Asp.]
1. The venomous asp. [Chiefly poetic] Shak. Tennyson.
2. A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot. [Obs.]
As"pic, n. Etym: [F., a corrupt. of spic (OF. espi, F. épi), L. spica (spicum, spicus), ear, spike. See Spike.]
Definition: A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.
As"pic, n. Etym: [F., prob. fr. aspic an asp.]
Definition: A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
