Meaning

A meat or fish jelly..

Definitions by Sense

1. A meat or fish jelly.
2. A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
3. (obsolete, poetic) An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
4. (obsolete) A light cannon firing a two-pound ball.
5. Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.

Example Sentences

“Put a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover the bottom ···“

"I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.

This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.

(With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh, / Showing the aspic's bite. )

Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?

Word Forms

• aspics

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When Should You Use Aspic?

Use aspic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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