POSSET

posset

(noun) sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

posset (plural possets)

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.

A baby's vomit, comprising curdled milk.

Verb

posset (third-person singular simple present possets, present participle posseting, simple past and past participle posseted)

(obsolete) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate.

To treat with possets; to pamper.

(of a baby) To vomit up curdled milk.

Synonyms

• (pamper): coddle, cosset, pamper; see also pamper

Anagrams

• T poses, T-poses, e-stops, estops, pestos, posest, posets, ptoses, stoeps, stopes

Source: Wiktionary

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Pos"set, n. Etym: [W. posel curdled milk, posset.]

Definition: A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. "I have drugged their posset." Shak.

Pos"set, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Posseted; p. pr. & vb. n. Posseting.]

1. To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. [Obs.] Shak.

2. To treat with possets; to pamper. [R.] "She was cosseted and posseted." O. W. Holmes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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