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posset

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pos·set  (pst)
n.
A spiced drink of hot sweetened milk curdled with wine or ale.
[Middle English poshet, possot : perhaps Old French *posce (Latin psca, drink of vinegar and water from potre, to drink; see potable + Latin esca, food from edere, to eat; see edible) + Middle English hot, hot; see hot.]
posset [ˈpɒsɪt]
n
(Cookery) a drink of hot milk curdled with ale, beer, etc., flavoured with spices, formerly used as a remedy for colds
[C15 poshoote, of unknown origin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.posset - sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer
drink - a single serving of a beverage; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner"
Translations
posset
n
heiße Milch mit Bier oder Wein und Gewürzen
(of baby) → erbrochene Milch


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Yes, I said, and I do not believe that there were any such diseases in the days of Asclepius; and this I infer from the circumstance that the hero Eurypylus, after he has been wounded in Homer, drinks a posset of Pramnian wine well besprinkled with barley-meal and grated cheese, which are certainly inflammatory, and yet the sons of Asclepius who were at the Trojan war do not blame the damsel who gives him the drink, or rebuke Patroclus, who is treating his case.
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But I was by this time so weary that I could have slept twelve hours at a stretch; I had the taste of sleep in my throat; my joints slept even when my mind was waking; the hot smell of the heather, and the drone of the wild bees, were like possets to me; and every now and again I would give a jump and find I had been dozing.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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